I remember the day I decided to take flying lessons. That decision finally led me to enroll in a flight school. We were given lessons and didn’t move on until we passed that lesson.
Then came the day we went out to the airplanes. We were to inspect everything on the airplane to see if it was ready to fly. If you didn’t listen or do exactly as they said, you were washed out. They wanted good safe pilots.
That flight school reminds me of parents trying to raise children in our world today.
They work hard trying to teach their children to do right from day one.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:1, 4 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 4) Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Sadly, many children fail when they quit listening to what they are being taught or are out on their own and totally disregard everything they were taught.
As with airplanes, some crash and burn, never fly again; others crash and can’t be repaired; others crash but can be repaired; and some listen to what they were taught and fly beautifully.
The Bible is the only guidebook, and it is to be followed to the letter.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17) that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
There are so many distractions in our culture and the world, not to mention our own flesh.
James 1:14,15 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15) Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
But! - There is hope; all is not lost. God loves us and wants us to be saved.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Keep praying and loving that lost one.
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