Blessings Mailed Ministries

"My children are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!"

Jeremiah 4:22

Jonathan Cahn, the well-known Messianic teacher, tells a cute story about two Cub Scouts who decided to do a good deed for the motorists in their village. They stood on the side of the road and warned passing cars that a police radar trap was just around the bend! When the Scoutmaster discovered what the boys were doing, he quickly put a stop to it! The boys thought they were doing the right thing. It turned out they were clever at doing wrong. How did the Scoutmaster correct the boys? He mentored them. He explained the difference between right and wrong. He taught them.

The truth is, on our own we usually don't know how to do right. We live in a culture that removed God from our schools and government institutions years ago. Now we're reaping what we sowed. We're surrounded by examples of cheating on our taxes, mocking prayer, and ignoring God and church. Our children are disrespectful, they use filthy language, and are encouraged to choose to be a cat today and curl up in a kid-sized cat bed in today's classrooms. How did we come to this? How did we get so far off course?

The answer is simple –– We have ignored God's Word.

Almighty God is the author of right. The Bible is our handbook for godly living. God teaches us in simple words how to distinguish right from wrong, morality from immorality, peace from chaos, joy from anxiety. But God's Word is not in our schools. God's Word is not in the hands of many of our young people. God's Word is not in the hearts of many of our young people. Now we're seeing what life without God looks like. How will young people know if we don't teach them?

But the Bible is not in our schools. Prayer is not in our schools.

Our country is now beginning a new journey with a new administration. Let's pray that one of the biggest victories President-elect Trump and his administration will achieve is the return of prayer in our schools and God's Word in our communities again. That's what Winsome Movement is doing –– placing free copies of godly literature in our communities. Let's be like the Scoutmaster in Jonathan's story. Get involved! Mentor children. Teach our kids what is right in God's eyes. We only need one tool to get the job done –– The Bible.

The most precious gift for every child this Christmas is the book that tells them of God's greatness, mercy, generosity, forgiveness, willingness to die for them, and invitation to live forever with Him in his magnificent Heaven. The book that teaches them right from wrong. The book that introduces them to Jesus, the Savior, who rescues them from their sin. The Bible. This Christmas, let's give every child on our Christmas list a Bible! If they already have a Bible, give them Helping Kids Understand Heaven! Put God's Word in the hands of every kid in every way we can.

Barbara Markland

Founder of Winsome Movement