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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting the best life for our kids. If we dream for our children and grandchildren to have a better life than ours, it makes perfect sense to prioritize access to better education, to top sports teams, and to the highest quality musical training and instruments. Of course we want them to have higher-paying jobs and more fulfilling careers; all of this is good, but what is better?
How wonderful would it have been for us all if we learned to put our hope in God sooner in life (Psalm 78:7)? That’s exactly the type of goal we should feel good about prioritizing over all others.
For a little perspective, please humor us by taking a short trip back in time to March 11, 2018. This was the Sunday our congregation members gathered together to make their commitments to build a new K–8 school in the Tell the Next Generation capital campaign. God knew then that a sweet little boy would be a kindergartener at that school this year on October 29, 2023 (Jeremiah 1:5). That boy would be born on March 26, 2018, just 15 days after the pledges were made. What’s more, God knows the precious boys and girls who will be born days, weeks, and years after our commitments are made on October 29, 2023. He knows those same boys and girls who will sing worship songs and play hymns in the William Meisch Music Suite, those same boys and girls who will be baptized in the new Living Stone worship space, and those same children who will receive a top Christian education in one of the additional classrooms.
The entire ministry at St. Paul’s will be empowered to teach our youth to set their hope in God. These are the children yet unborn that Ryan Glowczewski so powerfully asked us to pray for: “They’re going to fold their hands and pray. And they’re probably going to do that because they learned it at St. Paul’s. That’ll save them. Long term, it will save them. It saved me.”
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