Next week my oldest starts High School. Not sure how I feel about that. I don't feel like I'm old enough to have a son in High School. He's still so young, yet sometimes he surprises me.
Not long ago he wanted to spend the night at a friends house. And he wanted to skip church the next morning. So I made him a deal that if he led a 30 minute Bible Study with his friends on Sunday he could stay over.
The next morning he's talking about the Bible Study and one of his friends pipes up, "oh, your Dad was just kidding."
"My Dad does not kid about the Bible" he states as a matter of fact. Thus begins the discussion of what to study. Mrs J, who is hosting the party suggest just reading a chapter of Scripture and then talking about it.
My son picks a Proverb that is heavy on the topic of adultery. These young teens end up in a very serious discussion on fidelity in marriage, sex outside of marriage and so on and so forth. Mrs J was very impressed, as was I later when she told me about it.
Mrs J told me later that the boys taught her something, an important something. Every sexual relationship you have before you are married is an infidelity towards the person you marry. It's a lesson that many never learn.
She asked my son later why he picked that chapter. His reply? "I thinks it's important and I wanted my friends to know it."
As much as I complain about him, sometimes he demonstrates that we are doing something right. God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a God fearing family. And every now and then he shows me how His Grace in my life, and my obedience is being payed forward to my family. My children are being given a much better start to life than I was given.
And they are going to need it, because life is getting hairy if I do say so myself. Lord willing I am preparing them for it.
