Training our children!!

For those who have children, I want to ask you to reflect for a moment. Reflect over the lives of our children.

How many can remember when they were babies and the only thing that nourished them was milk. They weren't equipped for anything else at the moment. But as time went on they began to eat from the table (just meaning they began to eat the things you ate), by you feeding them of course. Giving them with each spoon full, the portion that they could handle. As they progressed you began to cut up there food in preparation for them to eat on their own as they imitated what they saw from you as you ate, as well as remembering the manner in which you fed them.

As our children began to grow, we as parents began to give to them more portions of food. Portions in which they would have to cut up their own meat and distribute to themselves how much to eat at a time. As they got older they would began to prepare food for themselves ( fixing their own bowl of cereal) and doing so in the manner in which they felt they could handle.

I said all of this to say that the expectations that we have for our children must 1^st start with us as parents. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. If we as parents continue to spoon feed our children when they are older then that’s what they will come accustomed to. Looking for you to provide for them, without feeling the need to do it for themselves. The same can be applied to their relationship with Christ. If that’s what we desire for them to have, then we must first introduce to them a relationship when there are young. By reading the Word of God to them, by praying over them and by bringing them in the fellowship of other believers.  Allowing them to experience Christ rather than to observe Him.

Grab and go: Some of us may have children that are older now (adults).I don’t want anyone to feel that they have lost their opportunity to share their relationship with Christ with their children. Although they may be older in age physically, spiritually they may still be babies. Start the way you would if they were infants in the flesh. Give them a little, and watch God do a lot.

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