day no. 16,546: parenting is a participation in the ex nihilo

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” — Isabel Paterson, God of the Machine

They've been coming for your kids longer than you can imagine. The transparency of their tactics have become more obvious, but the intensity of their intentions has never been in question. They have always seen parents as their obstacles and your children as their rightful property. 

"You may not be paedobaptist or postmill, but the left is and that's why they're winning." — Ben Merkle

The Left believes that the future belongs to them and so they believe that children belong to them. Children are simply the missionaries of the future. They are sent out into unknown lands to spread the news. They are dispatched to rule and subdue the world of tomorrow. They are given dominion of the hereafter. Because the Left wants to populate the future with their ideas, they are working hard to groom your children. They don't have kids of their own, but they have ideas, and one of these is that your kids should be filled with their ideologies. They aren't working like a defeated people trying to get a grassroots ghetto established in order to endure. They assume that someday the Left is all that will be left. They are aggressively optimistic in their eschatology.

Yet Christians, who have the sure word of the Lord guaranteeing His triumph, act like we'd be thrilled to merely retain a remnant. And in our defeatist posture, we surrender our children to the whims of wicked systems. We surrender the future to the inevitable dominion of the Death Cult.

Repent.

Believe the Word of the Lord and stop believing in the plans of wicked men. Stop buying into their lies and start believing in the promises of God. Begin by taking your kids back. Repent for having to ask permission to reclaim them. Receive them back warmly and go forward convinced of God's presence with you as you parent them, committing to never surrender them again.

Someone will parent the future. The Left knows this. That is why the play is to be the parents. But God made you the parent when He permitted your body to contribute to the creation of someone where no one once was. Parenting is a participation in the ex nihilo. God brings something out of nothing and then hands them to you. Make the most of it.