I recently saw a meme about a boy who was resisting the transgender narrative that satanic news sources are pushing to normalize society to accept sin these days... It bought up this three-decade old memory—
My son was 3, maybe 4 years old. He had a remarkable vocabulary for that age, but still, he hadn't been around all that long.
One
day he proudly told a childless woman, "I'm a man!" And she laughed in
his face. She laughed and said, "You're just a boy."
His expression
showed that he had no context for what had just happened. It was obvious
to me that by saying "man" he was meaning "male."
And here is what I realized:
I had to go into spiritual warfare that day. She had opened a doorway
that could have given entrance to homosexual spirits if I had accommodated her by laughing
along and passing her comment off as "Oh, isn't he cute!" in order to spare
her feelings.
Fortunately, parents are empowered with a special God-given anointing for their own children. (Outside "experts" do not have this, and can be wrong.) Although I was more awkward then than I would be now, at least I had enough cognizance of what was happening to side with my son! I said something about he is becoming a fine man, and his expression went back, not all the way to being proud, but at least to being satisfied with who he was.
It was awkward. I could tell she thought that I should have sided with her, but at least she had the grace to not say anything more.
But I was distressed all day until
I started to pray it out. Why would anyone crush a child's heart like
that? For her it was ignorance. But some act on purpose.
It is
often these tiny little things that give the devil entrance. They can easily seem insignificant. We need to be paying attention. The Holy Spirit was there to encourage me to protect my son that day, and I was able to receive at least some awareness. This "what might have been" situation illustrates why "idle words" will have
to be accounted for in the day of judgment.
But I tell you, on the day of judgment people will have to give an accounting for every careless or useless word they speak. Matthew 12:36
