Who Are They Going to Believe?
Earlier this week I wrote about the proliferation of “wall decor motivation” slogans. One slogan I see often is simply the word “BELIEVE.” Do you wonder as I do, “Believe in what?”
Our world isn’t only shouting slogans at us. It is also shouting through articles, commercials, so-called experts . . . and the list goes on.
Of all the things you are doing as a homeschooling mama, one of the very most important is helping your children believe what is true.
Almost every politician promotes education, but education is not necessarily a worthy goal. It depends on what that education includes. As Solomon wrote in Proverbs:
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7
Knowledge that does not begin with the firm foundation on the fear of the Lord can—and often does—do much more harm than good. Perhaps that isn’t only often. Perhaps it is always.
As the apostle Paul told Timothy:
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,
avoiding worldly and empty chatter
and the opposing arguments
of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
which some have professed
and thus gone astray from the faith.
Grace be with you.
1 Timothy 6:20
And as Paul wrote to the church in Rome:
And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
For through the grace given to me
I say to everyone among you
not to think more highly of himself
than he ought to think;
but to think so as to have sound judgment,
as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
Romans 12:2-3