You’re
locked in a room with your greatest fear. Describe what’s in the room.
My grown children and I sit in the corner
of a very dark room. We cannot see anything, not even ourselves, so we huddle
together in silence. The longer we sit,
I feel an oppressive heat as if a hot, wet blanket is being draped over us. It’s uncomfortable to say the least….I
whisper encouraging words to the boys, but their minds drift farther and
farther away from the conversation, and I start to feel their inner pain. From
heartbreak to regret, anger, revenge, and jealousy to hate and bitterness, I
feel it all, but it’s inside them. I
realize after a bit that there’s someone else in the room with us, someone who
has my boys’ full attention, and I can’t pull them away from the trance they’ve
been put into by the snake in the room…I’m losing them to his sly persuasions,
deceptive temptations, and clever rationalizations. It’s my greatest fear revealed, and I am
helpless to stop it. My children are
miserable….and now they’ve moved away from me and the corner where we sat in solidarity,
and I can’t find them; I can’t see them. I can’t get to them…I’m scared that
I’ve lost them forever, and they will never know how precious they are because
they have taken the wrong path and been overwhelmed with life’s pain and unable
to lift themselves out of the pit they’ve found themselves stuck down inside. All I can do now is pray and trust in God’s
ultimate power over the situation and our lives…
“Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22: 6
“He
also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet
upon a rock, And established my steps.” Psalm 40:2
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