I am a statistical anomaly
The statistics show that I should not be where I am. I should not have done the things I have done. I should be able to do the things I will do in the future. Let’s take a second and look at the stats:
1. Drinking problems. Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households
2. Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide.
3 Compared to peers in two-parent homes, black children in single-parent households are more likely to engage in troublesome behavior, and perform poorly in school.
4. Even controlling for variations across groups in parent education, race and other child and family factors, 18- to 22-year-olds from disrupted families were twice as likely to have poor relationships with their mothers and fathers, to show high levels of emotional distress or problem behavior, [and] to have received psychological help.
5. Children with fathers at home tend to do better in school, are less prone to depression and are more successful in relationships. Children from one-parent families achieve less and get into trouble more than children from two parent families.
6. Children whose parents separate are significantly more likely to engage in early sexual activity, abuse drugs, and experience conduct and mood disorders. This effect is especially strong for children whose parents separated when they were five years old or younger.
If you were looking at these stats you would say man the cards sure are stacked against a man that has even one of those. Will you are looking at someone that fits them all. Praise I never had to leave up to a worldly statistic. The only one I care about is the one where my Father says:
In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles [2] of the world.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!"
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
(Galatians 4:3-7)
I am no longer bound by the stats of man. All those stats were redeemed. Once I accepted Christ in my life I no longer had to live up to what the World told me I was destined to be. For the longest time I was worried that was exactly what I was destined for. As I have grown to know more that I am a son I no longer have those worries. Many fall in the trap that the world has set for them. They think they cannot become more than what those around them tell they can become.
Praise God I am college graduate. I have been able to leave the country on extended missionary trips twice now. I have been able to receive multiple jobs before and since I graduated. I believe in my spirit I will one day marry to death do us part, and be involved in my children’s life as I am alive and able. All those things have nothing to with how great a man I am. They have everything to do with God redeeming the things that the world wanted to tell me would hold me back. I am a statistical anomaly because my Father choose me to be one. I wrote this blog to tell those who have similar stats as me that you are not bound by those. Your Father overcame all of those. You are not destined to suffer, but have joy. You seemly have to present all those things you think hold you back to Him and let him wash them all away. And let him come in and make your life a living testimony that there is nothing He cannot do. There is nothing too big for him to overcome. Come be a statistical anomaly with me!!!
stats from:http://www.photius.com/feminocracy/facts_on_fatherless_kids.html
