Scripture of the Day: Proverbs 22:6
Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
For an interesting read on this topic, check out this link:
http://bible.org/seriespage/principle-nature-knowing-your-child!
My husband and I have been struggling with a decision regarding our child's education. I am not ready to share the issue with the world, but tonight I figured out without a doubt that my thinking has been all wrong on the subject. As Jill Savage warns us against, I have been comparing my inside to other people's outside decisions. What is worse, is that my son's OWN insides haven't even really been part of my thought process.
God wants us to raise our children so that how they are bent, thrives! I cannot say that what we want for our children doesn't matter, but we cannot force them into the little people WE want them to be...we need to help them grow into the people GOD created them to be. And doing that can throw us outside of our comfort zone.
Reader, whether your child hasn't been born yet, or is pre-school age, or is a teenager, or even an adult; pray that God leads you to guide them in the way that He intended they go. It is so easy to look at our children and assign where personality traits came from. My son does/says/thinks this like me, this like my husband, this like an aunt or uncle, this like a grandparent...when really, God created him to be his very own little (or big) person who may take a different life path than anyone on either side of our family has ever taken.
Closing Prayer:
Heavenly Father God, thank you for showing us how to raise our children. Not in what we want them to be or do...but in what You have planned for them. Please show us how our children our "bent". When our guidance is in alignment with yours, we raise our children to be confident and help them to stay on the path of your choosing. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
For an interesting read on this topic, check out this link:
http://bible.org/seriespage/principle-nature-knowing-your-child!
My husband and I have been struggling with a decision regarding our child's education. I am not ready to share the issue with the world, but tonight I figured out without a doubt that my thinking has been all wrong on the subject. As Jill Savage warns us against, I have been comparing my inside to other people's outside decisions. What is worse, is that my son's OWN insides haven't even really been part of my thought process.
God wants us to raise our children so that how they are bent, thrives! I cannot say that what we want for our children doesn't matter, but we cannot force them into the little people WE want them to be...we need to help them grow into the people GOD created them to be. And doing that can throw us outside of our comfort zone.
Reader, whether your child hasn't been born yet, or is pre-school age, or is a teenager, or even an adult; pray that God leads you to guide them in the way that He intended they go. It is so easy to look at our children and assign where personality traits came from. My son does/says/thinks this like me, this like my husband, this like an aunt or uncle, this like a grandparent...when really, God created him to be his very own little (or big) person who may take a different life path than anyone on either side of our family has ever taken.
Closing Prayer:
Heavenly Father God, thank you for showing us how to raise our children. Not in what we want them to be or do...but in what You have planned for them. Please show us how our children our "bent". When our guidance is in alignment with yours, we raise our children to be confident and help them to stay on the path of your choosing. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
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