I am going to share something I taught the kids from Scripture a few weeks ago.
It goes with what I spoke about yesterday with my own kids.
It involves Eli and his sons.
The Bible tells us how the Lord revealed to a little boy Samuel that Eli, the priest, and his sons were going to face consequences because of their behavior.
If you remember the lesson from Scripture, Eli's sons were pretty evil. They were not following the Lord as they should have done. Through Samuel, the Lord revealed that Eli's house would be judged because of how Eli was allowing his children to continue in sin without saying anything to them. They were judged by the sons being killed in battle and Eli dying when he heard the news of his sons being killed.
It was impressed upon my heart that day as I was teaching just how important it is for us to rear our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. I realize our children are going to make mistakes, and they have the capability of doing things that we didn't rear them to do. However, if we just sit back and let our children do as they please from an early age, we may see the same thing that Eli saw with his household... a mess.
The Lord has kept putting something on my heart that I will share for the remainder of the week.
I am going to share about parenting.
I do not claim to be a perfect parent.
I do not claim to know it all.... I am still learning, too.
I do not claim that my children are perfect.
What I do want to discuss is common sense parenting, which I do not always see anymore in this world. In the 17 years I have been teaching I have seen a huge change in parenting skills. I think it is time that we get back to the basics of God's Word and common sense and stop listening so much to the world's reasoning of what is best in rearing our children.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
We, as parents, WILL be held accountable to the Lord for how we rear our children. I realize that as they get older they begin to make choices of their own, but we have a huge responsibility to lay a foundation that will help them stay on the right path. What they do with what they have been taught is between them and the Lord.
Stay tuned for the rest of the week....
1 comment:
Very well said! Can't wait to see what the rest of this week's post reveal!
Spent the weekend at Meredith! It was Lil' Friends Weekend, and I took my niece to participate with Ashley. She's 9, loved it, and wants to be a Meredith Angel when she grows up! :) Wanted to share that with you...thought it might bring back fond memories!
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