A Letter From an Estranged Daughter

I just heard about a letter that was written by an estranged child to her mother, in which the letter contained all the conditions that must happen before there is a reconciliation. The conditions were everything the daughter wanted in a mother.

Basically, the list contained all the conditions the mother must be in order for a reconciliation. The mother replied, "I am not agreeing to this."

If I were the mother, I would say the basis for reconciliation would be that you never speak to me in disrespectful terms and that you accept me for me.

The Bible is very clear that children are to honor both their father and mother. This means they are never to treat one better than the other and never do or say anything to pit one parent against the other.

Favoritism often causes one parent to be blind to the rudeness of the child toward the other parent. This is wicked and deliberate.

Ephesians 6:1-3 "1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Estrangement of children from their parents today is a consequence of not raising children in the Lord and of Christians following their culture in permissiveness rather than the Biblical instructions with principles and commands of God.

Even Christian parents who attempted to raise their children in the Lord, even though imperfect, they did their best, the culture had a greater pull on them than the parents did.

Sadly, the organized church full of psychology and worldly thinking played a role in turning the children away from God and their parents.

Superficial cultural Christianity rules the day now, and we march more vigorously toward the end times full of lies brought by deceiving spirits, ruining family and the culture as a whole.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 1 Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."

The devils know that the weaker the family, the more likely they can influence lonely, rebellious people to enjoy and promote evil in society. People look toward pleasure without relationship connections.

No one can stop what is happening in these end times, but we can keep it all from influencing us. We can read the Bible, ask God for truth, and refuse to be intimidated into becoming like the culture around us.

When God said, "come out from among them and be separated", He was telling us to follow Him and not the culture around us. It takes the courage of Christ in us to be willing to be alone, rejected, and despised by those who should love us.

Matthew 10:22 "22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."

All who have been transformed by Christ remain to the end; this is the proof we do belong to Christ. Those who do not remain to the end were never transformed by Christ; they were pretenders who wanted religion but did not want Christ.