Honoring Your Parents: A Biblical Plea to the Young Christian Woman Who Has Turned Against Her Family
This is written with a heavy and grieving heart for one who has been like a daughter or granddaughter to me. I am deeply troubled and at a loss to understand how someone I know loves both God and her family so dearly could allow herself to be influenced into turning her back on the very people who raised her in the faith and taught her to walk with the Lord. It is my earnest hope that these words, rooted in the unchanging truth of Scripture, will reach her. If she reads them, may the Holy Spirit bring gentle conviction, repentance, and the sweet restoration only God can give. If she does not see this, then I ask those of you who do to join me in prayer for her and her family—that our merciful Heavenly Father would intervene in His perfect timing, soften hearts, break the power of wrong influence, and bring healing and reconciliation according to His Word. If you are the young woman described in this scenario—a girl who has walked faithfully with the Lord, only to turn sharply against y...