Are your grandchildren at risk in today’s culture?

Recently I was thinking about my grandchildren going back to school, and the story of baby Moses kept coming to my mind from Exodus chapter 2.

At the time Moses was born Pharaoh was killing all the newborn Hebrew boys in Egypt. When Moses was three months old, his mother hid him by making a basket, coated it with tar and pitch. His mother placed the child in it and then placed him in the river among the reeds with his sister standing nearby watching. Pharaoh’s daughter saw the basket as she was walking near the riverbank and sent her slave girl to get it. When she opened the basket, seeing that he was a Hebrew baby boy crying she felt sorry for the child.

Then his sister said she knew a Hebrew woman who could nurse and care for the baby for her. Pharaoh’s daughter asked the girl to get the woman. When she arrived, Pharaoh’s daughter asked her to nurse the baby, and she would pay for her service. When the child grew older she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter, she adopted the child and named him Moses.

It amazes me how God orchestrated this whole story.

• Think of the risk that Moses’ mother took hiding him for three months.
• Then the danger of putting him in the basket in the river knowing that if he   were found he would be killed.
• Knowing her time was short she taught Moses much about God before she would have to release him to Pharaoh’s daughter.

Our grandchildren are at risk living in our post-Christian, troubled, unstable environment of racism, violence, hate, transgender influence, etc. It’s a place, where we fear our grandchildren and their parents could drown, so to speak. Just as Moses mother risked his life-placing baby Moses in the river.

There are times in the lives of our grandchildren that their parents and we as grandparents have to place them in the basket in the water. We have to let go ask God to protect them physically, emotionally, and spiritually and trust that He will do that. The world is an unsafe place – a place where we fear our children could drown. We must let go and allow God to draw them from the waters to fulfill His purpose for their lives. God has loaned us our children and grandchildren to teach them to love Him; they were HIS first.

That’s why grandparents need to urgently pray for physical, emotional and spiritual protection as the grandchildren, enter schools, from preschool to college.

Prayer

Dear Lord, I pray my grandchildren will:

Guard their hearts.  Desire to do their very best.

Respect their teachers.  Choose friends, who will have a positive influence.

Recognize the deception of worldly thinking.  Have eyes blinded to the temptations they face.

Have a balanced view of their beauty, charm, and strength.

Learn to be responsible for their actions and behavior.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

It is only 10 days until the National Grandparents Day.                                                                     Let’s make it a special Day of Prayer for our Grandchildren.

By Lillian Penner, Co-Prayer Director for Christian Grandparenting Net, lpenner@christiangranparenting.net.