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Are you hoarding the
blessing of your children? Are you giving them to the Lord as Hannah did? How
is this accomplished? Don't think that your actions and attitudes do not
affect your children when they are very small because they do! Your child
knows your attitudes and habits probably better than you know them yourself!
Your attitudes and habits toward spiritual things have an effect from the very
beginning deep down in the soul of your child! Are you training them now to
serve God by serving God yourself? OR Are you hoarding them by using them as
an excuse to not work for the ministry of the Lord?
FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
There is a lot of
confusion about what parents are supposed to do for their child(ren)!
Proverbs 4:1-9 gives us
God's perspective--the right goal is to train a wise child!
The book of Proverbs was
written to the sons of Solomon about wisdom.
According to Proverbs 4:5
wisdom is stressed as the principal thing over and above all that society
dictates.
I. The need for this goal:
A. There is an inherent
problem Proverbs 22:15a
*Parents must realize that
their child is depraved by nature and their biggest problem is INTERNAL.
*Too often parents believe
that their major task is to provide for the emotional and physical needs of
their child above all, but they must first be in tune to the reality
that their child has an innate internal problem of depravity!
*YES, they are "dirty
rotten sinners" as cute as they are!
* Depravity manifests
itself in disobedience. Beware of the popular mandate that children
must "express" themselves!
The natural expression of
the heart is FOOLISHNESS
Parents must also be aware that
their child is faced with external pressures. It is your job, parent, to
protect your child from the external pressures they face. It is also your job
to teach them how to combat the external pressures they face by arming them
with the Word of God from a very young age!
EXTERNAL PRESSURE
There are three types of EXTERNAL
PRESSURE we must warn our children against:
SOCIAL:
Proverbs 13:20
MORAL:
Proverbs 1:10
MATERIALISTIC:
Proverbs 28:20
ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES
Not only are you training your child for your own
sanity, but most important for the ETERNAL
CONSEQUENCES that are spelled out in the
Bible!
Proverbs 8:35-36 The wise son will find life!
The Bible teaches that there are 4 Kinds of Wisdom
that we must teach our children (brainwash, if you will!)
THEOLOGICAL WISDOM
Proverbs 9:10
MORAL WISDOM
Proverbs 8:13
SOCIAL WISDOM
Proverbs 13:20
PRACTICAL WISDOM
Proverbs 21:5
Practical application:
THEOLOGICAL WISDOM:
Read Bible stories to your children at home and teach them the importance of
prayer as you teach them about GOD! This should start from birth! You are
teaching them the importance of written communication from their Creator! WOW!
That is Awesome!
MORAL WISDOM:
Teach your children RIGHT from WRONG! This is always important, but in our
society where morality is relative, it is imperative that you as the parent
instill in them that there is right and there is wrong!
SOCIAL WISDOM:
Teach your children how to behave! Teach them the importance of good friends
because of the influence their friends will have on them! When you see bad
manners creeping up, CHECK OUT THEIR FRIENDS! Be in charge of their
social life! You are the Parent!
Teach them GOOD MANNERS! Do not train them
that they are more important than you! This is a subtil trap! Be careful!
PRACTICAL WISDOM:
Teach them to always include God and His plan in their plans. Teach them how
to plan their life to include the Lord by including the Lord in your own
personal life as well as your family life! Teach them how to set priorities by
setting priorities in your own life! Teach them how to live a practical life
in this world!
"Foolishness is bound
up in the heart of a child." It is your job parent to train a WISE child the
Bible way!
A word about stay at home Moms
Never let the world demean your important CALLING
from God!
You definitely have a very important responsibility
to your child/children!
When you take your task of training your children
from a business point of view, you definitely have more responsibility than
the average executive of a major corporation.
Proverbs 14 tells us that the "Wise woman builds
her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
You, mom, set the tone of your home. You instill
into your child forever feelings and attitudes about the Lord,
the family, the church and the world.
You must be "on call" 24/7 if not more!!
From an educational standpoint:
In the home you are already providing your child
with educational experiences by letting them play and explore and interact
with language and communication. These are the foundational building blocks of
literacy that ready your child for reading and comprehending as well as for
math skills. Manipulating objects, playing with sets and shapes, puzzles, etc
are all foundational to the thnking skills necessary for success in school and
in life!The most important would be COMMUNICATION!!
Bottom Line: Do not take your job lightly. The
first 4-6 years are crucial to the intellectual, spiritual, emotional and
physical development of your child!
You cannot take a vacation from your job and you
cannot leave your work at the office overnight. What an Awesome Privilege you
have to be called a Mom!
It's OK to brain wash your kids! If you don't do
it, somebody else will! God has entrusted those children to you for a purpose
and you must be a steward of His property.
Remember: Stick to Bible principles as you pass on
standards to your children. They will accept everything you give them while
they are young, but they will question as they get older. When they question,
you must be able to back up what you have taught them from the scriptures.
Everything we do must be based on scriptural principles.
Hug them
Pray with them
Read to them!
Love them unconditionally!!
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