I am so very blessed to have been raised in a family in which a commitment to being in church/VBS/Sunday School was made by our parents. There was a spiritual foundation that came from my early training that I was able to build on as an adult. (Hmmmmm, I think God said that would happen! “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6)
I have far too many conversations with young women with little or no spiritual foundation. There is a great deal of deception that is perpetrated on people by our culture when they have no training in spiritual realities. “We are god.” “There is no divine ‘other’.” “We ourselves can accomplish all that is necessary for happiness and success in life.” “One’s own capacity and potential is endless, it just needs to be put into action.” Hmmmmmm……if all of that were true why are lives of many with such beliefs whom I encounter frequently so messed up or unfulfilling?