You know why public schools were created? So that every citizen could read their bible, so that no one would ever be able to take away an individual’s salvation by omission of knowledge. Being able to read the bible gave every citizen control over the destiny of their soul.
America was built on the foundational principles of Judeo-Christian faith and values. No other country had ever been built on the foundation America created. Communities, schools, our government instilled those principles, raising boys and girls to be men and women of faith.
Boys to men weren’t ridiculed, belittled, diminished because it was and still is a noble thing, a boy growing into a man.
Before God was stripped out of our schools, off library bookshelves, community meetings, commencement addresses, curriculum, or our government, school shootings, from Columbine to the UC- Santa Barbara killings weren’t a thread in the tapestry of our history.
A soul that doesn’t recognize that a relationship with Yahweh is as important to his development as his physical DNA, cannot grow into the man they were designed to be.
A culture that seeks to separate the soul from its God, and the God-designed man from its soul, risks cultural destruction.
Our culture needs to remember it is a noble thing, a God-designed boy growing into a God-designed man.
It is noble to be a God-designed boy.
Boys are protectors, designed to grow backbones of steel – and shoulders to carry massive weight of responsibility. A boy’s love of dirt and mud is creator-designed, foreshadowing the hard jobs, the dirty jobs, sometimes fox-hole-kind-of-jobs of the man they will become.
Negotiating playground differences without interference is conflict training for more grown-up matters, like business and freedom. A boy not taught concepts of nobleness risks becoming a mercenary man.
A boy taught loyalty, faithfulness, and fairness will honor and protect the weak without thought to material gain or fame. A boy taught these things will sacrifice his comfort, his lunch money, his play time to help. The man taught this will sacrifice his golf date, sacrifice his pride to ridicule for standing up for what he believes, even sacrifice his life: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” John 15:13.
A boy needs a knightly example to follow, preferably someone who champions for good against evil. Someone who loves his neighbor as himself. Someone who can introduce him to Jesus and His Father. Someone who shows a boy how a man loves God. A boy finding a noble hero finds a mighty mentor.
A boy with a knightly purpose carries himself differently, speaks differently, handles responsibility differently.
If only our culture saw a boy as knightly as they see a girl a princess – imagine how our young men would lead today.
Imagine how safe our schools, playgrounds, communities would be with boys to men instilled with knightly, Godly behavior.
HOW CAN YOU HELP INSTILL KNIGHT-LIKE QUALITIES IN YOUR SON?
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