Perhaps one of the most difficult experiences that a parent has or feels is when they see their child being taunted for being different.

Some parents understand what I'm talking about.

In fact, if you look across the culture,

you'll find that is precisely why so many parents

would do everything possible,

even beyond their abilities,

in order to ensure that their children fit in. Parents are not ensure that their children fit in.

Parents would fork out large amounts of money to buy clothes that make their kids not stand out so they look like the others.

Many parents will buy expensive, trendy clothes or whatever it takes in order

that their kids would not feel being left out. Some this is positive, some is not. Many

parents will go to any length to ensure that their child is in the in crowd.

Sadly, we have bought into the lie that says different is bad.

That different is unhealthy.

That different is psychologically damaging. That different is unhealthy. That different is psychologically damaging.

That different is undesirable.

And so we see teenagers and young adults conform to the peer pressure.

And we see parents going along instead of training their children to stand up and stand

out and to stand against the current of culture. So what do we do in this great country? We thank God

every single day that we are free and that we live in a free country. But in reality, we are enslaved

to conformity. We are enslaved to fads and fashions. We are enslaved to what others think of us.

We are terrified to be different. Pray tell me, what kind of freedom is this?

One of the biggest lies that Satan sold to us.

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