"Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." Proverbs 22:6 NLT~
Directing our children is easier said than done. But do not give up yet! Our children are living in a hard & confusing world. It is up to us to direct them in the right path. But then they grow and become teenagers that think they know it all.
Trying to have a conversation with teenagers can be exhausting if you do not get their attention using words they can relate to; you will never get your point across by talking to them the way our parent did to us. Don’t ever think they are not listening because they are rolling their eyes or because they are completely ignoring you. We still their parents and even when we think we have been replace by their friends, or the cellphone or a complete stranger we are the ones they call when everything else fail.
But if we instruct them on the word of GOD they will learn to turn to HIM when they feel lost. They will learn how to make wise choices rather than impulse choices. Our children’s generation is one that is been told to live life at 100 MPH without time for the things that really matters. Our children don’t know it yet but they are approaching adulthood faster than we did. They are missing up on all the little things that really matter.
Today is more important for them to keep up with the most friends on Facebook, the best cellphone, the best car, the best clothes, how many girlfriends or boyfriends, who had sex or who gets the most money by doing nothing. We are still the parents and we need to instruct them on what really matters. Life is not easy, their generation is growing to be one that demands what it wants and is given to them. Hard work is something the majority of them don’t know about.
When is time for them to face life and they have not been instructed in the word of GOD they will find life hard to live. But if we are there for them no matter what and remind them that GOD is the only one that has the right answer then and only then they will understand what you have been telling them all along.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Are you willing to keep instructing your children in the word of GOD? Or are you going to leave it up to them?
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