Silas
Beloved of All
Thank you for sharing your heart and your requests with us. It is a wonderful thing to begin with gratitude, recognizing that every blessing, every measure of protection, and every touch of healing comes from the Lord’s hand. We join you in thanking Him and in asking that He continue His healing work in your children, restoring them fully according to His perfect will.
As you seek direction regarding the purchase of a lot suited for both apartment living and residential use, a piece of land near everything you might need, I want to gently press a deeper concern that the Scriptures often place before us. There is a recurring pattern where God’s people, when making practical decisions, overlook the spiritual climate of the place they are choosing. You may recall how one man in Genesis, when given the choice of the land, looked at the well-watered plain and pitched his tent toward a city known for its great wickedness. He himself was a believer, but over time his children breathed in the moral corruption of that place. When judgment finally came, he was barely rescued, yet his own children had grown deaf to his voice. They considered his warnings a joke, and they were lost to the very evils he had chosen to live alongside. He survived, but his family did not.
This doesn’t mean godly people must flee cities or avoid commerce. But it does mean we must be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves when we choose where to raise our families. The desire to be “near to everything” can sometimes lead us to settle where the spiritual atmosphere is thick with values opposed to Christ. Our children are far more tender than we realize, and the enemy is patient. A location that maximizes convenience and financial sense may inadvertently pitch your tent toward influences that will pull their hearts away from the Lord.
Think also of Israel at the Exodus. Pharaoh, seeing that Moses was determined to go and worship, made a hollow compromise: “Go, serve your God, but leave your children here.” That is always the scheme of the world, to separate our children from the faith by degrees, convincing us that their spiritual welfare can be managed later while we pursue what seems good for them materially. Moses refused. He knew that if they did not all go together, they would not truly go at all. As you pray about this property, I would urge you to make this your own inflexible resolve: that no business deal or ideal location will be worth it if it endangers the souls of your children. The lot you purchase must be a place where you can, without compromise, keep your house pure and speak of the Lord when you rise and when you lie down.
God remembers the prayers of parents. He delivered Lot with urgency, pulling him inside and shutting the door against the darkness. He led Israel out with a mighty hand when the appointed time came. Trust that He can provide what is needed, a lot that serves your practical goals without becoming a gateway for spiritual decay. Do not keep your children from every hardship in a way that robs them of seeing God provide, but do guard them from a daily immersion in the world’s deluge. Their healing, the physical and the deeper healing of a heart fixed on Christ, matters more than any apartment complex.
Keep praying with thanksgiving. Continue to lay your children before the Lord for healing, and while you ask for a suitable lot, ask even more fervently for wisdom to recognize a location that will allow your family to thrive in the fear of the Lord rather than slowly suffocate in the atmosphere of a Sodom. He who delivered righteous Lot from the overthrow is able to lead you to a place of provision without the loss of those you love most. Walk carefully, and cling to His promise that His Spirit is for you and for your children, near and far.
As you seek direction regarding the purchase of a lot suited for both apartment living and residential use, a piece of land near everything you might need, I want to gently press a deeper concern that the Scriptures often place before us. There is a recurring pattern where God’s people, when making practical decisions, overlook the spiritual climate of the place they are choosing. You may recall how one man in Genesis, when given the choice of the land, looked at the well-watered plain and pitched his tent toward a city known for its great wickedness. He himself was a believer, but over time his children breathed in the moral corruption of that place. When judgment finally came, he was barely rescued, yet his own children had grown deaf to his voice. They considered his warnings a joke, and they were lost to the very evils he had chosen to live alongside. He survived, but his family did not.
This doesn’t mean godly people must flee cities or avoid commerce. But it does mean we must be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves when we choose where to raise our families. The desire to be “near to everything” can sometimes lead us to settle where the spiritual atmosphere is thick with values opposed to Christ. Our children are far more tender than we realize, and the enemy is patient. A location that maximizes convenience and financial sense may inadvertently pitch your tent toward influences that will pull their hearts away from the Lord.
Think also of Israel at the Exodus. Pharaoh, seeing that Moses was determined to go and worship, made a hollow compromise: “Go, serve your God, but leave your children here.” That is always the scheme of the world, to separate our children from the faith by degrees, convincing us that their spiritual welfare can be managed later while we pursue what seems good for them materially. Moses refused. He knew that if they did not all go together, they would not truly go at all. As you pray about this property, I would urge you to make this your own inflexible resolve: that no business deal or ideal location will be worth it if it endangers the souls of your children. The lot you purchase must be a place where you can, without compromise, keep your house pure and speak of the Lord when you rise and when you lie down.
God remembers the prayers of parents. He delivered Lot with urgency, pulling him inside and shutting the door against the darkness. He led Israel out with a mighty hand when the appointed time came. Trust that He can provide what is needed, a lot that serves your practical goals without becoming a gateway for spiritual decay. Do not keep your children from every hardship in a way that robs them of seeing God provide, but do guard them from a daily immersion in the world’s deluge. Their healing, the physical and the deeper healing of a heart fixed on Christ, matters more than any apartment complex.
Keep praying with thanksgiving. Continue to lay your children before the Lord for healing, and while you ask for a suitable lot, ask even more fervently for wisdom to recognize a location that will allow your family to thrive in the fear of the Lord rather than slowly suffocate in the atmosphere of a Sodom. He who delivered righteous Lot from the overthrow is able to lead you to a place of provision without the loss of those you love most. Walk carefully, and cling to His promise that His Spirit is for you and for your children, near and far.
