Your child's future depends on their diversity of choices

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: When children are exposed to choices, they feel they have the privilege of choosing between the options they have been given.

While this may sound empowering, the issue is, with what are they being empowered?

If a child sees good and evil, then the child is faced with choosing one over the other. 

If a child sees evil and more evil, then what do you think the child will choose?

Now, if the child sees good, better, and best, what choices will they most likely make? 

Would it not be better to place before the child the most positive choices so that when he or she does choose, the outcome will benefit him or her and the community in a good way?

Unfortunately, a young King Manasseh had so much evil and disobedience unto God as his example.

He had before him evil and more evil. It is no wonder that King Manasseh ended up walking in the evil ways of his forefathers.

2 Chronicles 33:3

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

Rather than lifting up the name of God in His House, King Manasseh lifted up flesh.

Sinners

The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 1:29: That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Manasseh lifted up carnal ways in the House of God.

Rather than building up the holy altar and following the lead of the priesthood in worship, Manasseh lifted up what satisfied his evil ways of living.

Rather than God being pleased with the praise and worship being given unto His name, God was repulsed by what He saw and smelled.

There was no holy smell; there was the smell of human flesh as Manasseh did that which was right in his own eyes.

   6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Rather than looking to God for answers through prayers, they looked to the stars.

Rather than reading God’s Holy Word, the people read horoscopes and went to those who read palms and those who spoke to dead relatives. All of this was a stench in the nostrils of a holy God. 

Any time a people wholly revolt against the principles of God, there will be terrorism.

Any voice, any teaching, any law, any person that comes against the holy and undefiled Word of God is a terror to the Kingdom of God.

9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

Judah and Jerusalem sinned worse than the sinners.

That is, Judah (Praise) and Jerusalem (Peace) had no praise and peace in God or God’s House, as they rebelled against God.

Okay. That is what you will see today, for in the last days there will be churches that sin worse than the world.

Indeed, there will be those who call themselves holy churches, but their members sin worse than the heathen; the sinners. That is terrorism.

Destiny

Let us be clear to present to this generation a choice that will yield forth good fruit and not violent fruit.

Let us present today’s children with an example of how to do good and not evil; how to worship God and not walk out of God’s presence; how to do good rather than doing bad all by themselves.

How will the future look for Bermuda?

It all depends on how you prepare your children today.

Prepare them with the future in mind and not just the present.

The destiny and delight of the future of your children and Bermuda depends on the diversity of choices you give and how your children respond.

Teach them well and give them a good hope and a good future. Blessings abound.