The Pack

You dont have to go with the pack. Sometimes you can, sometimes you must, but only because you decide so. No matter how strong the outside suggestions are, you will ultimately be the one who decides what you will do.

It will be very difficult standing on your own in the midst of all the voices around you telling you to go a certain direction, even more difficult when everybody else (the pack) is already going there. You will be unpopular. You will feel alone. But you won't be.
We have trained you to listen to what is right. We have taught you not to accept anything with understanding. We have taught you where to base your judgements on, where to anchor your values on, taught you to choose what is right.

The pack generally decides on the basis of what feels right. You know that there are more important considerations than just what you feel. You have been taught to base your decisions on established moral standards. You have seen us use those standards. You have witnessed how we have tried to live according to those standards. Those standards are based on God's Word - the Bible. It shows us how to tell what is right and what is wrong. It helps us to know. I tell you this because time will come when you will have doubts about the credibility of the Bible. This is because of outside influences,and not because you have not seen it to be true. The pack has a different set of values than what you have been taught. Prominent and even authoritative members of the pack will be up front with you and tell you that what you have based your lives upon is no longer in style. you can hear them, but i am confident that you will know what the truth is. You have known enough of it to prove its reliability; how time after time the promises God has given, he has kept. We may not have been perfect in keeping ours (although we know that you know we tried, and continue to do so) but God has an unbroken track record in keeping his word. You know that. You've seen it yourselves how he's done that in our family.

The pack will try its darned best to get you to go along with them, but remember - you don't have to.

You will need courage to stand alone when the time comes.