Worldly Interference
The year was 1994. My loving husband was the Youth
Pastor at our home church in beautiful South Carolina. Two of our young boys in
our group were having trouble in their home, and their parents were threatening
to send them to Juvenile if they didn't straighten up. Neither of these boys were any trouble in our youth group or in our
home on the weekends for youth gatherings. God laid it on my husband and my
heart to take these boys into our home
and try to help them with God's Word instead of the
world's system.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when
he is old, he will not depart from it.
In our home, we homeschooled our children, so in helping these
boys, by the South Carolina code, we had to get temporary custody of these
boys. We went through the lawyer to draw up the papers and pay the costs
involved. The papers were set in such a
way that after ten months the boys would be re-evaluated to see if custody
could go back to the parents.
The first month the boys were with us, God worked on these boys’ hearts. One
was called to preach, and the other accepted
God's free gift of salvation. Their attitudes were improving, and they were
showing promising progress.
Proverb 23:13-14
Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
The day finally came down to proceed with the final adoption which was to carry
out for ten months. When we arrived to finish the papers, the boys’ parents got
scared and wanted to stop the proceedings due to family interferences and worldly point of views. In turn, these boys went back home to their
parents.
1 Peter 4:4
“Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”
When you are working for God and trying to follow His Word you will find that your friends and family will think you are a strange bird. We don't party with them, we don't run to their hangouts and we don't even dress as they do at the beach.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Our way of life and our teachings are contrary to their fleshly desires and in turn they will not want to be around you. Let God work through you in your life.
2 Corinthians 3:2
“Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:”
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