When your kids discover kryptonite to your superman:
What wonderful experience and life-phase, college is; the hours spent engaged in debate and discussions (which constitutes intellectual play, according to Immanuel Kant: Theory without experience). My apologies to my readers who are young adults, in college or recently finished college. My generation fall into the group of being parents to young adults, who I classify for purposes of expediency and experience as semi-literate. No insult intended.
A semi-literate person’s modern analysis of faith (“intellectual”): the most basic tenets of his faith. Salvation by grace seemed far too simplistic. And the resurrection? Nothing learnt in any of science classes made that even a remote possibility; it seemed to be a story designed to bring comfort and hope to people who would grasp at anything to keep their faith alive. Which was fine for them — just not for him. An expression of his when reading the works of apologist such as Josh McDowell, Lee Strobel, and C. S. Lewis, was “I don’t think he is looking for evidence to support Christianity. I think it’s a moral issue, masquerading as an intellectual one. I think he wants to find a worldview to support his quest for independence and self-sufficiency as he runs away from God, something that will justify his rebellion.”
Prayer for prodigal child
2 Corinthian 10 v 5
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
The light of God’s love is what scatters the darkness. Tether your prayers to the brightness of His promises.
“We have to learn or understand that we are completely helpless,”. “We cannot change or control our kids’ lives; all we can do is trust in a God who has given us great and precious promises.” We are helpless, at least insofar as it comes to dictating the way our adult children think and behave. Many of them are out of our reach, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
But they are not out of God’s — and He invites us to join Him in the work He is doing, through prayer. We are not helpless there; even when we have no idea how to pray, God has us covered. “The Spirit helps us in our weakness,” Paul writes in Romans 8:26.
We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
