One of my students at English club expressed his frustration today. "All my teachers and parents are telling me to trust God and not sin, and I think that's probably right, but I just get angry at them for telling me all the time, and it makes me believe that maybe I shouldn't trust God."
Likewise, I pray with the students at my school, and some of the teachers look down on me because I don't try to direct it, I don't try to control it, I don't correct the students, especially the older ones, when they start playing the "what can I get away with saying during prayer time" game (unless they're saying something about another student).
And I was thinking about this today, and it makes me really angry, because these authority figures, in their overzealousness to control the outcomes of faith for their children, leave a trail of bitterness, meaninglessness, and judgement in the lives of these kids, and communicate this nagging fear that "maybe he won't turn out okay."
Because when it comes right down to it, they don't trust God to work in the lives of the people around them.
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