Daily devotion – children
Children growing up in this world face a difficult time. Definitions of so many things we once took for granted have changed dramatically. What is a family, define marriage, or what constitutes a man or woman?
A continual atmosphere of disrespect, anger and contempt fills social media. Things that once were so simple – like teaching school kids the 3R’s have vanished and been replaced with the latest trend to better help our children, so tell the experts.
This coming Sunday we deal with raising children God’s way. For many parents, much of what we will discover in God’s Word will be confronting and foreign and difficult to swallow. Such has the effect and bombardment of the ‘woke’ post-modern thinking had on the family.
But, Jesus revealed to us how important and responsible He will hold us to how we raise and treat our children – Mar 9:42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.
Being grandparents now, God has given Helen and I another opportunity to once again, share in the lives of young children. To acknowledge their unique personalities, to be aware of their personal struggles and offer to help and pray with them. To share God’s Word with them and explain God’s love to them.
It gives us once again a bit of an insight into how our own heavenly Father enjoys teaching and raising us. His heart is for His children always and His desire is to have us spend as much time as we can with Him. To know He is watching over us, there to protect us and to know His love for us is immense and never ending!
Our world is seeking to destroy the beauty and innocence of children and is bringing to their lives nothing but fear, confusion, and a lack of truth.
We as a Church today, as individual Christians are the last bastion to sharing the truth of God’s Word and the glory of the life that God intended for us to live.
Be sure to teach your children God’s ways and not the world’s ways. He holds us accountable for the youngest of His flock!
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from