That doesn't happen by allowing Hollywood to train up your children. John said in III John 1:14, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (KJV) That doesn't happen by accident. Following in your footsteps are your children. Would you believe that he even has become a dedicated St. He watched his dad and copied him so closely that he even walks like him bouncing up on his toes as he walks. When my son-in-law laid on the floor and propped his head up watching television, there was my grandson in the same position beside his dad. It was amazing to me to watch my grandson as he was growing up and how he copied the behavior of his dad. What are you going to leave your children when your life is over? I am convinced that the most important thing is what you leave "in" your children rather than what you leave "to" your children. If you place God first in your life, they will do the same. If you speak kind words and control your tongue, your children will learn to speak in the same way. If you forgive others, your children will grow up learning to forgive. If you show love to your family and to your neighbors, your children will show love to others. Wherever you point a bow, the arrow will go in that direction when shot. Children will do what we do.ĭavid was saying in Psalms 127 that we as parents are the bow and our children are the arrows. God wants us to teach our children in the right way by our example and our actions. Finally the little girl said, "I just have one question, when are the parents going to start doing something?"Ĭhildren are an awesome blessing and our greatest responsibility that God has entrusted to us as parents. "And didn't you say that they fought against the Philistines and won a battle?" Her teacher was amazed at her good memory. Like arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are children of one's youth." (NKJV)Īfter listening in church for several weeks about the wanderings of the children of Israel one little girl asked her teacher, "Did you say that the children of Israel came out of Egyptian bondage?" Her teacher replied, "Yes." She continued, "And didn't you say that the children of Israel marched around Jericho and the walls fell down flat?" "Why yes, " her teacher responded. The Bible says in Psalms 127:3-4 that "children are a heritage from the Lord.
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