After I wrote the prior email I caught an Ed Young sermon on video. He asked the question that came up during the Nightline debate last week, "Are we born to cheat?"
His answer: Yes, we are all born to cheat. But as Christians, we are reborn to not cheat but to follow Christ.
That's the key. We all have sinful natures and we are all destined to sin and to die for those sins -- unless we accept the salvation that Jesus offers us through his sacrifice for our sins.
My goal for my S's is to lead them in the way of the Lord, and to pray for them, that they might lead good and spiritually healthy lives. I pray that I can lead them through and past the snares in life until such time as they are on their own. I will pray that God grants me the patience to persevere in the face of behavior from their mother that contradicts those spiritual teachings.
I am not looking forward to her oppositional actions, but what else can I do but to continue anyway?
