Safe Harbor!Is There Freedom to Conquer the Questions in your home? In your heart
How many backhand crosscourt drills is enough to win?How much grits is enough for your family?
Hypothesis?
Daniel was gifted and needed the challenge of a godless education to sharpen his mind and spirit. I believe his continual prayers were to rightly dissect the godless education and find the real truth of God inside it. I believe God did that for him. But, I also believe that our prayers should be the opposite; Where are my prejudices keeping me from seeing the real truth of God?
My ideal educational objective would be half physical and half mental. I would leave the spiritual training for the church people. All of the school time would be sports training and mental acumen. Computers would be banned, except to build one or another.Science concentrations would include dissecting animals from 6th grade. The choices of specialization would be the child’s after Middle School of Math or Science Majors---Both are essential and would be included in each, but they must have a sense that they have chosen the path that they are taking. Mastery Learning would be the top rung and each level would be aggressively encouraged to take the most challenging that they could.
What makes us want a Wimbledon trophy? The pomp, the encouragement, the Queen’s attendance? We must incorporate encouragements to scholasticism. Psychologists and Nurses should be onhand to diagnose family difficulties which impede the process. Special care and special attention should be given to family problems which cause learning difficulties. This is where Sunday School and Christian lessons of loving one-another would become remedial. We must direct our young people to see the humanity of their living situation and seek to grow from their trials.It is clear that Nebuchadnezzar had very violent tendencies that encouraged his court to excel and to challenge themselves to higher and higher levels. I believe that Daniel prayed daily for grace to see the purposes of God, in his sufferings and labors. Nebuchadnezzar was drawing every culture and religion to answer to him. He had challenge games for them that could result in their death. This is extreme and his labors brought the greatest learning environment that we see in Scripture. Daniel needed grace and strength to see God as above this challenge. Is earthly knowledge something to aspire to under God? Daniel was victorious in his efforts through prayer and diligence. We must see God as both expecting great effort and sympathetic to our weaknesses. God grant us grace to see this, when we have lesser men than Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar to show us the dichotomy.
