God and Parents

Why is it that God wants us to honor our parents? Have we ever thought about how we treat our parents is how we more than likely treat God? God is called our Heavenly Father that is what He is. How do we treat our earthly parents; is there a difference between the two?

What do we do with our parents? Keep them in the dark, try to get something from them though we don’t necessarily want to spend the time with them that they request – not demand but request, we don’t want their opinions though they have experience on our side instead we look to our peers who have only minutes over us in life experiences. Are your parents just a voice of the past or are they a real part of your present and future. Your parents are not God but they are a picture God has put in front of you as an example of how God wants a relationship with us.

God knows our name…God adopted us and calls us sons & daughters…God will not leave us no matter what we have done. Our parents are not perfect but if you are willing to deceive, steal, ignore, and push away those who have known us from our first breath then what are we going to do with a God that we have not seen though He know us from the first moment that we started the path to be who we are…He knew us from the first thought HE had of us and at that moment He called us His.

Remember when...

Remember back to the time you first left home to become an adult. It may have been when you joined the military, it may have been got married, or to start an apprenticeship or college. Whenever or whatever was the reason, it was with the idea that you were no longer a child but deep down you knew you were not an adult.

There can be much sorrow in this experience. You’ve lost something familiar that you will never get back. A trip home remains that, a trip. Short-term visits, even whole summers, will never return to the comfort that just a few months earlier seemed so permanent. The absence of this security sends us looking for that which we have lost; family.

Christian Challenge is one of many options these students have to replace that lost piece of the puzzle. For some, Christian Challenge gives the comfort of Christian familiarity that they wish to hold on to. For others it represents that thing they have most longed to run from as soon as they were out of view of their parental authority.

These are the challenges that Christian Challenge faces every week. Some students visit our events because they know God should have a role in their life. Some students come because of what they will get out of it – free food or discounted tickets to the corn maze. Some students do not come because of poor examples of Christianity they have experienced in their past.

These are the students we attempt to reach, train, and encourage. We look for partnerships that will pray for them and for us – this is the best time to gain perspective or loose your way.