Ezekiel 33:6 “’But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’”
ARE YOU LOOKING?
Just as in Ezekiel’s day, we have an obligation to warn all of God’s coming judgment. We know it’s coming. We have the Word of God that tells us. So why aren’t we doing all we can to warn those who aren’t walking in the light? Why aren’t we searching the horizon watching for His return? For many of us, we are just too preoccupied with our own lives to give two seconds to someone else.
Now, let’s be clear. It is NOT our responsibility to make someone believe. That is clearly up to them. Even those who have been raised in the church and turn their back on it have to make up their own minds about returning. I was talking to a parent recently about her daughter who has turned her back on everything she believes. There is just something about turning eighteen in America that seems to give young people a reason to go off the reservation. I just don’t get it.
TEACHING MOMENT
Your child will face that moment of faith when they will have to choose to believe all you have poured into them. Your faith has been their faith for the longest time. But now, they have to formulate their own belief. Their relationship with Christ has to become their own. They must choose to walk in faith or walk in darkness. But it is their choice.
Our job as parents is to prepare them and then warn them of the costs for their choices. We must not stand idly by as they “find themselves.” Excuse me, but that is just hogwash. No one needs to find themselves. We only need to “find” Jesus Who will show us who we are in Him. Without Him we are nothing, nothing at all. But in Him, we are joint heirs of the kingdom and His precious child.
A Moment In Time 