Change 10/26/2022

The Lord took me to Deuteronomy 28. I didn’t realize how long this chapter actually was. I’ve read it many times but never really to study out.

In Duet 28 the Lord set before us a choice. We can choose to be blessed or cursed. The way we choose is by our actions. Do we follow all the commandments of God or not? The Lord made it really easy for most intelligent folks. You see He spoke about 15 or 16 different blessings and over twice that amount of cursing. One particular cursing really took my attention. He said three different times that we would consume the flesh of our children. This is really deep so pay attention.

The number three is very significant. Throughout the Bible it talks about three. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost is the most prominent.

The first time it speaks about eating the child it said WE would eat the flesh of our children. This in today’s society and living in America is a little absurd so let me break it down. In today’s society this would mean that we wouldn’t even acknowledge their existence. We wouldn’t teach them to be an intricate part of society. We bred them to be our slaves.

Whoa up there a minute, slaves, that ain’t cool. Listen I’m more guilty than most, look at me. I say "Joshua get me this, Bobby get me that, Katelin while you are up fix me a sandwich." We have completely overlooked a generation now we don’t know what to do with them. They are part of a hi- tech society that scares the bejesus out of us. We left them undisciplined and left to their own devices that they consumed themselves with. Never before have we looked at a generation that was as rebellious as this generation.

You have Goths, and then emo children. They are tattooed up and pierced in every imaginable and unimaginable orifice in their body. They are slicing and dicing their bodies like nobody’s business. Shoot my generation is so lost we are following them instead of leading them. Look at how many 30-40 year olds that look just like I am describing.

Second mention is the Father will consume the flesh of his children. This is the heritage and inheritance of the children. I mean both spiritually and physically. We have abandoned them as orphans to consume ourselves in our jobs. We haven’t put back for them. We taught them that the only thing they can look forward to in life is either a long life of meaningless work or wake up on the third of each month and pick up a check marked in ink by the government out of the taxes of hard working people. We haven’t taught them the meaning of a valuable job or even how to work. We let our wives clean their rooms and do their dishes and wash their clothes. We buy this high dollar lawn mower so we wouldn’t be too hard on them. They are just children you know.

I remember when I was growing up I walked up and down the road looking for hay to pitch, tobacco to chop out, yards to mow. We have become so consumed that we have consumed our children’s heritage. They don’t know where they belong. They don’t know how to respect the elderly because we didn’t instill that in them. Shoot if I got out of line and my parents weren’t around, I’d have the tar beat out of me by a neighbor, or that neighbor told my step dad what I did and got it even worse because I embarrassed the family.

Now we got it backward. You better not lay a hand on my child, I’ll sue you. What do think you are doing correcting my child. I don’t care if I left them unattended and needed to be put in jail myself for neglect you better not show my child any kind of attention even if it meant their life would be saved. Their inheritance is being consumed. We have so much debt and care of this world trying to stay on top of the Jones’ we don’t have enough finances to leave our children anything but more debt when we die.

What do you mean? Well you went in debt to buy that $30,000 lawn mower that cost more than 2 of my cars combined just so your child wouldn’t have to get out in the hot sun and sweat mowing the yard with a $100 push mower, instead of taking that $29,900, and putting it toward their college or trade school. Now you have to pay for a mower that by the time it is paid off it’s in a junk heap rotted through because your child forgot to spray off the grass from the mower that you bought so he wouldn’t have to work to hard, because it was the responsible thing to do and you haven’t held your child responsible for nothing in his life. He now thinks you owe him something because he has no responsibility or sense of responsibility that things aren’t free in life.

Enough here, now the third consumption is that of the mother; this is that which taught the child to belong. This consumption deals with the ability to function in love. We have been so consumed about getting were we want to go that we left our children behind. We didn’t teach them that they weren’t the most important thing on this Earth; as a matter of fact we taught them just the opposite. We taught them they were better than most because of some societal status we may have achieved in our own lives. We think that they deserve to be up there with the elite without it costing them anything. You forgot what it took to get you there. What did it cost you? Did you sacrifice your child? Did you consume the flesh of your child to achieve what you have achieved?

Mother was it worth it? Now that your son who thought he could have whatever he wanted decided he wanted a girl who really didn’t want him but because of his “status” in society gave herself to him? Maybe he took her and she didn’t want him and the police was called and your son was charged with rape, but because he is “your” son he didn’t do it. The girl must have teased him; he isn’t that type of person. How would you know? You consumed his flesh by trying to get somewhere you didn’t belong in the first place.

When your child needed love and a mother’s care where were you? You don’t really know your child because you were trying to make life easy for them and didn’t hold them responsible for their actions. When they lied, instead of punishing them you took them out to eat and reasoned with them that it wasn’t nice to lie. If my mother had done me that way I would be bad off. I was a manipulator, I could get my way with anything I wanted. But because my mother, who worked really hard, still took the time to know who I was, corrected this action in me.

I’m not talking that a woman shouldn’t work. My wife did and does now, but she took the time to be with our children. She has taught our children to respect others. To think about others before they think of themselves.

We didn’t teach them that when they played ball everyone won. What’s the point in playing if there are not any winners? One day my son would win, next day yours, it all depends on the way they decided to play that day.

I didn’t mean to take so long, but this is deep. Let us repent of not keeping God’s commandments and begin to ask God to redeem the time we have lost. It is not too late for a big God like ours to fix what we think is unfixable. It is going to take work and I mean hard work but we can get this done.

"I ask Father that you help us change our mindsets about your commandments. Give us the strength to do what you are telling us to do. Give us strategy and wisdom in our parenting process even if our children are grown. It is never too late as long as we are still breathing God to repent and ask for help. In the name of Jesus, I pray."