Parents

Being a parent

Are you a parent or are you thinking of having children? God help you. Being a parent is one of the greatest joys you can experience in life. It can also be one of the most frustrating, stressful, and scary things you ever do.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to be a bad parent. We want wonderful lives for our children. We want for them to have a nice home, nice clothing, good food. We want them to get a good education, good career, and we would like to leave something for them when we pass on. Parents want to give every good gift they can to their children. The greatest gift we can give them is to raise them walk as Christ.

Plan for the future

There is more to the life of our children than having nice things. Usually when we think of planning for their future we think of education and finance. There is a future beyond all that. What we should want most for our children and should think of most is their salvation. That is the thing that can slip by us. For some it may not even enter the mind. What parent -non believers excluded- does not want for their child to receive salvation? We should always make it a point to ask ourselves "What am I leading my child to? Heaven or hell." No one wants hell for their child.

Follow God's Directions

I said being a parent can be scary. That doesn't just pertain to being afraid of your child being harmed or getting sick. Those things can happen. There are no guarantees on that. There are a few things God says to do for your child. If you do them then you can remove the biggest fear of all.

Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they will keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. KJV

Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldst forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons' sons... KJV

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. KJV

Psalm 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments... KJV

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes(Quickly). KJV

Proverbs 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. KJV

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. KJV

Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. KJV

May God Bless You