Hi G. Driggs
You have received some wonderful council, edifications and encouragements from your spiritual brothers and sisters here.
I too am a Mother and feel your love, concern and insight towards your own daughter as I do towards my own son who is 13 years old. I can share with you the aching knowledge of knowing that our children need first to leave their “ First Love “ before they are dragged by God to Christ out of and away from the easy on the ears and flesh seductions of Mystery Babylon that is not a mystery, in many ways, to us anymore.
The liberty in the knowledge we have, that has set us free of bondage, captivity and slavery to Babylon’s many seductive practices and false beliefs, shows for me how our children are blessed already above and beyond others who’s parents are not yet delivered of the blindness of false doctrines in Christendom. As Parents, and yet to be Parents (Daywalker)
we are blessed to have the Mercy of God lavished on us through the true knowledge we have of The Truth. We are free parents not slaves to deceptions. Our children are children of parents of the liberty in Christ. What a blessing our children have to have parents set free of errors followed by Christendom.
We know that the process of God is still the painful chastising unavoidable part of how God perfects us of our flaws, self reliance and spiritual blindness. God does not change. Our physical children have us parents who are the Spiritual children of the free heavenly Kingdom not the bound mother in slavery Babylon. We are the unbound unfettered parents of children that shall visit the slavery of Babylon but keep the identity as being your child and YOU are a Parent of The Kingdom. Nothing will erase your child being your child. That is a wonder and great privilege to us as parents and flows out as a great blessing upon our children.
Our children may be appointed to try what bondage feels like but they will always have you as their example of liberty in Christ. We are the primary examples to our children not Babylon or any Harlot that assumes falsely the rights God has given to us. Babylon practices seduction to lure virtue into deceit turning sweet into bitter and bitter into sweet. We do well to warn and edify our children as we do to caution them against taking drugs or any other narcotic that fellowships with death and destruction. Yet we do not teach our children about drugs in a fashion that is of terror, over the top fear, dread and anxiety that would lend itself to giving the child the impression that such a dire fate is unavoidable and is going to happen because Mom looks so terrified, anxious and hysterical. The extreme is almost funny to contemplate because no one does that in their right balanced soundness of mind so we need not either, regarding the dangers of seductive Babylon.
We know Babylon teaches nonsense but not taking their drugs causes us to be their outcasts, their persecution targets of rejection and the not good enough bastions of their contempt. Just like a druggie who cannot get you to fellowship with them, gets hostile aggressive and darn right nasty so too is Babylon. That might be something to explain in your own words to your daughter some day, some way as you are led. We are hated, spurned, rejected, abandoned and cast out, as Christ was too. We are feared made to look like a curse to them who practice the arts and persuasions of deceit and defiled blindness that is their lot to experience in accord to what God has planned for them. Their fate is not going to end in Hell they believe and preach but ours will, according to them, so we are anathema to them in their blindness and fear driven practises. This is Mother to Mother talk that for children can be spoon fed in small doses that expresses our wisdom and understanding rather than fear and dread. Perfect Love casts out fear.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. You know enough about how God works through the study we have here at BT. First the natural THEN the Spiritual. We all have to go through being carnal first before God makes us Spiritual through the fire of His Judgments on the House of God now. This is a beautiful work that only a Perfect Wise and Powerful God of Love can do.
Job prayed for his children and offered sacrifice to God for their sins. The OT Jews did the same thing for themselves in their yearly sacrifice for sin. WE the NT children of the Kingdom of God, who have the better promise, seek first the Kingdom of God, to keep the unity of our bond to the Spirit of God and dwell inwardly in His Peace of knowing that Jesus shares His tried proven and true Faith, with us.
Our edification is disclosed and unveiled to reveal the insight and knowledge we have received that God IS doing His work in us according to the council of His Will that shall not fail in His Promise to us or to our children who occupy our hearts. God will perfect us and God will cause us to be on that path that shall lead us to cleansing off of our carnality, purging out of our blindness and leading us to salvation. We believe this is going to be accomplished for all of us as we know that Jesus died for the world that includes our children, grandchildren, and everyone. This is not to say to you that you should become complacent or lax in your alertness to your accountability for your daughter. On the contrary. You have the Spirit of God in you to discern, edify encourage and as a Mother so go ahead, delight in your daughter for God says,
Psa 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Blessings to you
Arc