2/3/2017
Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Psalm 127:3, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 22:6, Proverbs 23:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Ephesians 6:4.
Parental responsibilities
Children are a blessing from me, take care of them, cherish them. It is your duty as parents to bring them up knowing me and my ways. A child who has the fear of the Lord in him is one who leads an abundant life. Parents do not be intimidated by the government or by anyone else concerning raising your children according to my will. You are giving them a fighting chance in a world that is full of deceit and betrayal. It is your duty as a parent to not only teach them my ways but be an example of what a disciple should live like. You are my mirrors, a reflection of me in your homes therefore I do hold you responsible for the way you behave, the things you do and say. All parents will give an account of how they raised the children I blessed them with. Therefore do not take your parenting duties lightly or ignore doing your job as a parent. Set appropriate rules for your children and hold yourself to a higher standard as you seek to enforce my rules in your homes. Do not be a dictator who does not listen to input from your children. Do not be a hypocrite expecting children to keep my laws while you yourself break them. Your actions are truly more important than your words. They are a blueprint that your children are keenly observing and will follow either now or in the future as they grow older and wiser. Children learn wisdom firstly at home. They learn mannerisms, etiquette, opinions and prejudices firstly from their homes therefore the examples set at home should be consistent with my ways. Do not set one example at home and expect your children to exhibit a different thing in public that is not consistent with what they have learned at home. Children always exhibit the habits, actions and speech patterns they have learned at home in a public setting. Therefore if you as a parent want to see your kids produce good fruit in and outside the home then plant good seeds in them. It is true that as children get older and become teenagers and young adults they may choose to rebel against what they have been taught at home. My expectation is that you as a parent will instill my ways in your children while they are young and afterwards it is my responsibility to see them through their teenage and adult years. I will use what you have planted in them to steer them back to the right path if they lose their way in their teenage and adult years. You continue instilling my ways in them, pray for them constantly and trust me to lead them back onto the right path. This promise however is for those parents who raised their children in my ways initially while they were still young and living in their parents’ homes. This is the comfort I give to my children who faithfully raise their children in my admonition with a sincere heart, integrity and a lack of hypocrisy on the parents’ part. Even as I am faithful to my word I will faithfully bring it to pass in the lives of all my children including the wayward ones. I will keep my word and lead your children into my arms. Therefore parents do your job and trust me to do mine.
Amen.
