Last night in our small group Bible study, we were studying James 1:27 where James is telling the Jewish Christians to: “look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” I thought to myself that is something good to pray for my grandchildren and, of course, myself.

James is telling the believers to be generous and help the needy. We can become so busy and self-absorbed that we don’t even notice the needy. When we reach out and help the needy, it is an act of love because the needy cannot repay us.  Let us pray that our grandchildren and we will recognize the needy and help them in their distress.

However, he also tells them to keep themselves from being polluted by the world. In this media-driven culture with the television, Internet, video games, Face book, Twitter, Blogs etc it is hard not to be polluted by the ungodly world. Out media-driven culture is desensitizing our grandchildren, trying to distract and steal them from living for our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray for your grandchildren to:

• Recognize the deception and pollution of the godless world.
• Guard them from the corruption of our godless world.
• Keep themselves unspotted and uncontained from the world.
• Refuse to let the world corrupt them and keep them unstained by the world.

© 2010 Lillian Penenr

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written by Roberta Mouheb, June 15, 2010

Dear Lillian,

Thank you so much for sharing your prayers for our grandchildren, especially this one! I'm concerned about my grandson Amir, 16, just finishing his sophomore year at high school. He's on the honor roll but he spends a lot of time playing with those video games -- but more recently he's been trying out the different applications of the laptop we got him for his birthday. He and his mom, Nadia, are among those who are moral and God-fearing but who don't attend church [now that the youth group disbanded]. He was playing the bongos in our praise and worship team until the leader and he got into a conflict and he hasn't wanted to go back. As you can see, your column was very timely for me -- God bless as you reach out to others!

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