Children Who Lose Their Faith – What Can You Do?

True story. There once lived a woman whose son had abandoned the Christian faith he was raised in. She was far from perfect and had married a difficult man, but she had striven to bring up her son well. However, he fell in line with a bizarre ideology that rendered him “woke” within his circle of influence, and he began living with a woman who was not his wife. His mother prayed, but nothing seemed to happen. Her son was willing to talk with her, but she couldn’t get through to him. In tears, she sought out a wise and holy man. If only he would talk to her son! If only he would take hold of the young man and refute his errors  – rebuke him for all the wrong in his life!

Curiously, the wise man refused. He told the mother that her son was still too preoccupied with his own desires to listen to reason – still too prideful, too infatuated with the newness of his “woke” beliefs, for the wise man’s intervention to do any good. He advised her to pray for her son, and, since the young man was still in pursuit of the truth, he would eventually find it again, himself. Those who seek to know the truth with all their heart will find it.