And to man He said, “Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” (Job 28:28)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)

Buy truth, and do not sell it, get wisdom and instruction and understanding. (Proverbs 23:23)

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding , resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:1-3)

Have you soaked those verses in?

If not, go back and read them again.

Now here’s the big question… do you believe what you just read? Do you really believe the Word of God? If you do… if you really believe, then let me ask you… how on earth can our children really receive a “quality education” apart from the Word of God?

Exactly how is the public school system going to raise up young men and women with the wisdom and knowledge and understanding to be upstanding citizens, dedicated spouse and parents, loyal employees, future leaders of our nation apart from the Word of God… while actually teaching them lies that contradict the Word of God.

Could it possibly be that the course of our nation is what is is because man has fogotten that God alone is the source of true knowledge and wisdom… not a professor at Harvard or Yale or a football coach at Alabama?

We homeschool our children. We have for the past few years… but I have nieces and nephews and my precious students at public school… so I hear what’s going on. What disturbs me most now is this new testing… our children in public school no longer are taught… they are trained to pass a test. The focus of their education is not to teach them, but to get them to answer the government’s tests correctly so that the school will get money as a reward and if the school doesn’t pass the test it is punished with a lack of government funds.

I might be a little naive… but this just sounds down-right-out wrong to me. And what I don’t understand is where is the voice of the christian teachers in this nation? Where is the voice of the christian parents in this country?

Are you speaking up?

There comes a point and time when the rubber meets the road and you have to decide if you really believe God and His Word and trust Him to provide for you and supply all your needs as He said He would or if you are going to choose to trust man’s promises.

Are you willing to say, we will sacrifice for the sake of Truth? Are you a parent that is willing to change your lifestyle in order to pull your child out this viper pit? Are you willing to be a parent that bombards the school system with letters in love and parental authority demanding that they teach your children Truth? Have you forgotten that it is your tax dollars that pay fort that school?

How about flooding the congressman and representatives and president with letters and calls and emails demanding some answers… guess what… they work FOR YOU… you DO NOT work for them. Exactly when did we let the roles get reversed?

Are you a parent or a teacher that is willing to take a risk in order to call a lie a lie?

This nations workers protest for a lack of pay and compensation all the time… why not protest for a lack of Truth? We are supposed to be teaching Truth… yet the text books are filled with lies… either we believe it is a lie and cast it down or we believe God’s Word is merely a myth and not worth the Holy Spirit filled pen that first scribed it.

My children get a spanking for speaking lies to us. They receive this discipline for lying and for outright defiance… I am supposed to send them to school and tell them that is okay for the teacher to lie to them as they spill forth the decay of evolutionary theory and yet teach it as a fact, as they try to convince my child that wisdom and knowledge can be acquired apart from the fear of the Lord and apart from the love of Christ…

Will the true church please stand up?

Go back and read again the Scipture verses at the beginning of this post. Let them resonate within you. I also don’t think it needs to be missed that the church that is specifically mentioned in Colossians 2:1-3 is Laodicea.

Let us go and read what we know about these people in the church of Laodicea.

 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:

   The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

   ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

 Revelation 3:14-22

 

All this sounds quite familiar doesn’t it? It doesn’t take much effort to get a picture of what life (or lack of life) was like in Laodicea. I believe we are here. Our nation is here. This letter to the church of Laodicea could easily be addressed “To the angel of the church in the United States of America write:”

As you read this are you pricked?

Is your heart stirred?

Is your spirit moved?

Do you wonder if there is something you can do, some way you can take a stand for Truth in Truth in love?

We must take a stand in the Spirit not in our flesh. We can’t yell out our demands in a red-faced flesh filled angry voice… we must choose to do what is right in a spirit of humility and gentleness, because that’s the way our Jesus did it. He is our example.

There are opportunities out there to take a stand…when opportunity knocks at your door will you say, Yes, Lord… Here I am send me…?