Yesterday I
talked about mentoring our children and young women on standing up for God and
Christ by standing up for their right to say “Merry Christmas”. Today I would like to continue some of my
thoughts on the importance of standing up for Christ. ARCM encourages Christian
women to stand up for Christ in many different ways.
When we do
not stand up for Christ, we are essentially denying Christ. In fact, Christ
said, “If anyone acknowledges me publicly
here on earth, I will openly acknowledge that person before My Father in
Heaven. But if anyone denies me here on earth, I will deny that person
before My Father in Heaven.” --
(Matthew 10: 33. NLT). Denying Christ
can take many forms. We don’t have to be asked directly if we believe in Christ
and then deny Him. We can deny Christ when we acquiesce to the demands to take
down the Ten Commandments in our schools and public buildings. We deny Christ
when we fail to use Christ’s name when we pray for fear of offending someone
else. We deny Christ when we accept the world’s view or the world’s truth
instead of God’s Truth and values. We deny Christ when we don’t teach our
children who Christ is and how they, too, are to stand up for Him. We deny Christ
when we fail to take God-given opportunities to mentor our young ladies in
knowing and living for Christ. There are just too many ways that we often deny
Christ to list them all here. But, all of us need to take a moment and ask
ourselves: when was the last time I personally denied Christ? It might surprise you.
One way we
have denied Christ is in our failure to mentor our daughters and other young
women in God’s Truth, morals and values. Instead, we have encouraged our young
women to live any way that they see fit, while failing to teach them about
Christ and God’s Truth, morals and values. Oh we may have taken our daughters
to Sunday school or even taught others in Sunday school, but we are simply too
tired to have dinner discussions with our daughters on what they learned in school
that day. We don’t have godly discussions on values, morals and truth with our
daughter’s friends or other young women when they come to visit either. We would rather not possibly offend someone
than to stand up for what it right and true.
Without daily
communication and without discussions on right and wrong attitudes and the questionable
information that our young women may have been given in school, we are giving
the world the opportunity to raise our children the way the world or the
government thinks they should be raised. Raising our children does not take a
village (which is actually socialism). Instead, raising our children takes a
morally upright God-fearing family to raise a morally upright God-fearing
individual. It takes Christian women being willing to mentor our young women in
God’s Truth.
Throughout
their schooling, our daughters, and girls or ladies who are their friends, will
be inundated with such worldly ideas as political correctness and intolerance
of Christians and their beliefs. They will be taught to deny Christ. Eventually,
our young ladies will accept political correctness and other untruths as the truth.
Remember, if one tells a lie over and over, people will begin to believe that
the lie is true. This is why many of our young women today buy into the belief
that “Happy Holidays” is less offensive to the few than it is offensive to the
majority. But, in many ways this is our fault too. For, we don’t teach our
daughters and other young women to question some of the unproven ideas or lies
they are told to accept. We don’t tell our young ladies that we are offended by someone trying to
take Christ out of Christmas. We also don’t tell them that it is okay if they
are offended too.
There are so
many things that we just accept; many of which lead to our denying Christ.
There are also many things that we don’t tell our young women today. We don’t
tell our young ladies to voice their concerns and to not just accept everything
the media and the higher education system tells them. Young women need to
question why one person’s rights are more important than the majorities’
rights. We also don’t teach our young
ladies to question the media’s agendas. We do not tell them that simply because
something is stated in print does not mean it is automatically the truth. Moreover,
we do not teach our young women to question their professors’ beliefs or to ask
why their professor’s beliefs’ are more important than theirs.
Sadly, even
though we are to be the example and role-model for Christ-like living, we often
fail to tell our young women to stand up for the Truth, morals and values they
learned in Sunday school. Moreover, we do not mentor them when they are
confused and could use our help. As Christian women and mothers, we should
reinforce the Truths our young ladies have learned in Sunday school by
role-modeling Christ-like living and by discussing with them what they have
learned. We should give our young ladies opportunities to talk to us while
being open to discussing their questions and concerns. Invalidating their
concerns and questions stifles the two-way communication and shuts down the
mentoring process.
Unfortunately,
we often fail to teach our daughters and other young girls and women about the
most important person in their life. That person is Jesus Christ. He is the One
who can save their souls for all eternity. He is the One who can help them
overcome all kinds of trials and tribulations. They need to know that Christ is
the One who will bring them inner peace instead of the constant inner turmoil within
their lives. Jesus said, “Come to Me, all
who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you
and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls.” – (Matthew 11: 28-29. NASV.).
ARCM teaches
through example and role-modeling as well as through verbal discussions. As
Christian women we must mentor our young ladies and young women by using
several different types of mentoring, so they will truly understand the
importance of knowing Christ and living for Him. Young women also need to understand
the importance of standing up for what they believe.
Merry
Christmas!
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