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To the kids who will stand at the flag pole and pray for your school tomorrow,
Thank you.
Every day you walk the halls of your school and find your faith challenged. Kids you reach out to in love reject you for being too “good.” Those you do consider friends but who don’t believe what you believe, who don’t follow Christ, even those you’re close to, they keep part of themselves back from you. They don’t tell you all their secrets because they’re afraid you might tell them that they’re doing something wrong.
They don’t understand that you’re not judging them, you’re LOVING them. You want what’s best for them, and that’s Christ.
So when you get up extra early tomorrow and stand in front of your school flag pole and pray for them—for your friends and your school, your teachers and staff—it might feel lonely. It might be hard. And make no mistake, it WILL be misunderstood. Paul tells the church at Corinth that people who don’t follow Christ just AREN’T going to get those of us who do—and that’s as true today as it was two thousand years ago. He says in 1 Corinthians 2,
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
But my friends, don’t let anyone look down on you because of your youth, or your faith. You have Christ’s love in you, and thought it may LOOK like foolishness, in reality it is all you need to change the world, even your small corner of the world. Even the world that exists within the four walls of your school.
