The Truth, God is the same yesterday, today and forever. His word is unchanging and therefore He is the only firm and secure anchor in this ever changing world. As a mum I think it is natural to think about the world that we live in and what impact this will have on our children. Having been a teacher and seen the changes that have taken place in education in the past 15 years, I’ll admit that I worry about the environment that my kids will be thrown into. Even today on the radio I heard that there are organisations who are doing ‘bully’ checks on applicants 22 years and younger. If they’ve been known to be a bully then they won’t get the job. The scary thing for me is that on hearing this most people will be up in arms about discrimination. All I think of is ‘why is bullying becoming more and more prevalent’? I know it has always been there but things do seem to be getting out of control. They boundary lines for children are becoming flimsier. The word ‘no’ seems to be considered as limiting self-expression. All I see is a lot of young people wandering around wondering who they are.
I know that the boundary lines for me have fallen in pleasant places. God created me to be a daughter and a sister and I have since become a wife and a mother. I have a responsibility to my husband and my children to fill these roles out to their fullest. In being a mother, I need to set boundaries for my children, not to limit them but to secure them. My son needs to know what it means to be a boy and my daughter a girl. They will know the truth of who they are as they know God, their heavenly Father, who created them. It is for this reason that I have a sure hope in God, the anchor of my soul
Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul