I suppose everyone had a parent who was always telling them what they couldn’t do. There were so many things I couldn’t do, it was hard to see the things I could do as freedom. Oh and let’s not forget the things I had to do. I use to think my mother was guessing or trying everything out on me to see who I would become. Does pulling the wings off an insect count? Maybe I’m a surgeon.
I couldn’t spend the night at my best friend’s house. I couldn’t play by the dead end street that had a ramp, like the other kids with bikes. I could only have one bread roll, when everyone else got three. On my day off, I still had to get up, clean up and make my bed. Oh, and my personal favorite, when it was time to go to school, I had to travel over 3o minutes away to a school where no one would talk to me. I think there was one other person of my race there but I never saw her. I love that question, “How was your day?” I wanted to say, “Same as my life, confusing and pointless.” But you know what teens say, “Fine.” And then disappear.
You are suppose to believe that despite all these rules your parent or parents love you, but you begin to feel like the family pet. At some point rebellion sets in and you find yourself building your own ‘golden calf’. Whatever pleases you goes. You ink it in your skin if you have too.
Hopefully at some point you grow up. I mean that you look deeper into all those…rules. I couldn’t spend the night at my best friend’s house because she was being abused and I didn’t know it. I couldn’t go to the dead end street because behind the ramp, in the wooded area, drugs and prostitution was taking place. I could only have one roll of bread because I didn’t pass it through like everyone else, and I would get sick. On my day off I had to get up, because depression runs in my family and if you don’t learn to make yourself get up when you don’t want to, you won’t. I had to travel 30 minutes to a different school because it kept me from being satisfied with a little. I began to…dream of more than what I was surrounded by and what it would cost me to stand alone sometimes.
The commandments in God’s word may seem harsh or confusing but they come from the Heavenly Father who knows what you cannot see. Not only will they protect you but they will put you in position to fulfill the plan for your life and open your eyes to what it will cost you. If you are consistent, and faithful you will see His reasons and begin to understand. People have lots of advice to get you out of jam or help you go around God’s word to get you what you want. But when you realize that “only Jesus” has the foresight and the power to protect you from demons and fulfill your purpose. Only Jesus loved you so much that He would pay the price to redeem you from the trap of destruction that satan has for you.…burn everything else. Act 19:19 Let God’s Words be written with His finger in your heart. Jer 31:33 (Our hearts)/ Ex 31:18 (His finger)
It takes all that and then some. Acts 19:1-20 (The story of a group of people who showed the value of God’s words over all others) / Duet 6:17-20 (God’s promises to you,if you obey and trust Him)
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. KJV
(Written to my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus)
Love ya
Kim S-J
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