A Command To The Parents!

Question #1
Being a Christian parent what was your reaction when you held your child in your arms for the first time?
Questions #2
Do you think that the bible is the perfect guide to train your child?
Question #3
What is your philosophy in being a parent and guiding your children?
The work of every parent is to teach their children how to live; our entrance verse to this lesson is
(Listen)Ephesians 6:1-4 “Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honour your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. And you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord”
The best way to train your children as a parent always has to be based and begin with the word of the Lord, parents and children have to live according to God’s calling. No parent can correctly train a child outside of the word and commandments that God has left us. God calls his children to an obedience, God calls the parents to provide a just guide to their children according to His word. Both parents and children have to realize that this is not easy. There are Christian parents that have lost the significance of raising children according to the discipline and admonition of the Lord. Not to bug them and letting them do what they want can bring grave consequences that can leave a mark in children for all their lives and likewise leave a mark in every Christian parent in front of God. That is why the word of God tells us in Proverbs 22:6 “train up your child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it”. But what happens is that some parents read this passage and think that all that is necessary to train children according to God is to just bring them to church, while not setting a proper example in their everyday life and not acting like true Christians at home. This is the reason why many of our children are losing their interest in God’s will. If we want a strong church in the future it is up to the parents to instruct their children in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. When a parent does not bother to get involved in the life of their child, it is most likely because of two reasons
1) The child has a strong character.
2) Or the parent does not have any character, we can say then that this parent is very short sighted spiritually speaking.
To raise up our children in the admonition of the Lord covers everything, not just to give them their every day needs in their lives. That is why many children say that they have the best parents in the world, only because their parents let them do whatever they want.
The existence to be a parent is much shorter than one realizes. When a child is born one has the tendency to think that to that child there is an eternity awaiting him/her and we see him/her start walking, talking and growing but when we finally open our eyes and realize that that child is in the world, we react to teach him God’s will but it is too late.
The Word of God tells us in Deuteronomy “when your son asks you in time to come, saying “what is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes and the judgements which the Lord our God has commanded you?”” Like Christian parents how will respond to such a question. Will we have the right response? Many of us know how to guide our children according to God’s word in our minds but in practice we are a disaster spiritually speaking. Someone once said “I am more than enough to guide my children and I don’t need anyone’s advice to rear my children”. Now go look at the families with the parents that talk in this way, you will find children without any interest in God’s will. You will find parents asking themselves in what they have failed. Many times it is the parents that are responsible for the failure of our children, we as Christians are obligated to train our children according to the commandments and statutes of God.
Conclusion
Someone asked a Christian couple what the greatest gift God gave them was, they responded our kids. I think that every parents thinks in the same way, but the question is, How have we brought them up? Would God be happy with us? We as parents know our children and we know perfectly well in what we have failed. Let us not forget our children reveal even the walk of the parents. If the parent is indifferent in the things of God then it is obvious that the children will be indifferent with the things of God, this will result in a Church that is spiritually dead. The word of God exhorts each and every one of us to bring up our children in discipline and admonishment in the Lord (Eph 6:4). A final question, what is your philosophy in being a parent and raising your children?
Are you raising them for God or for the world?
You alone know the answer,
may God bless us today and always.