Satan Wants Your Child

Let me preface this blog by sharing that technology is not an appropriate babysitter. Allow me to also add the disclaimer that parental controls are called just that for a reason.

Now that those pleasantries are off my chest let's move forward.

I don't claim to have this whole parenting thing figured out. I wish I did because that would make life so much easier. I do, however, believe that God's word is a universal guidebook for life, including friendship, marital, and parental advice.

1 Peter 5:8 warns us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."

Please do not believe that we must change with the times on every matter.

Regardless of what society tries to manipulate us into believing, Biblical values are timeless.

It's no coincidence that particular movies have been created, books have been written with innuendos that go against God's word, and ungodly lifestyles promoted.

It's no accident but has been ordained by the enemy to serve as a stumbling block to young souls.

Just as God has a plan for our children's lives, the enemy also has one of his own in mind for them.

The younger Satan can capture children's innocent minds, the better for him. He wants to deceive children into believing unbiblical lifestyles are "normal" at the earliest age possible.

It's our job as parents to guard their young minds for as long as possible and as much as possible.

Something will hold influence over my children. While I can still control what and who that will be, I must choose wisely with Holy discernment that which their eyes will behold and what their ears intake.

I must guard their minds for as long as I'm able because there's no age limit on when the enemy, who roams about as a roaring lion, aims to devour my children.

But right now, I am the gatekeeper of my children's minds.

One day, they'll be their own person. One day, they'll be making their own choices and navigating on their own in this life.

But today isn't that day.

Some may call it old-fashioned. Some may call it strict. Some may call it being too careful or overly cautious.

But parenting is not a job. It’s a God-given responsibility.

Proverbs 22:6 speaks life to my mama's heart that one day when my children have choices to make, the Godly values I'm striving to instill in them today, won't be forgotten. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

I refuse to allow an iPad, an iPod, a computer, a phone, movies, a show, music or books to instill the opposite.

Those "meaningless" ads aren't by accident, and those "harmless" characters aren't by mistake.

The attack of the enemy may be coming upon this current generation with force, but I hold fast to the promise given in 1 John 4:4 "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world."

My children may be the kingdom shakers of tomorrow, but I am a kingdom shaker for today, and before I can ever be shaking for the world outside of my front door, I’ve got to be a shaker within the walls of my own home. My children are one of the greatest ministries.

Satan wants my children, but they can't be his. They'll never be his.

My children can't be when they've always been God's.

He's entrusted me to raise them for Him, and while they're on loan with me while on this earth, I'm going to raise them for us to shake up this earth for the glory of God.

Satan has a plan for my children's lives, but God has a bigger plan.