Making the Most of Our Time December 6, 2007
Posted by Erin in : General Lessons , trackbackJoe,
Sorry I am two days late here on my weekly post. Great job getting back to a weekly post. Once a week isn’t that much, but sometimes before I know it the week is gone. So how can we not only make sure that we do the important things and also include the important things for our children?
As I have said time and time again, I think having a vision for your children and putting that vision into concrete priorities is vital. So often we see frustrated people (often all we have to is look in the mirror) because their lives are not being fulfilled in the numerous areas that God has designed us to have joy.
In this day it is so easy to try to have your kids involved in 101 things! As a mother I know the pressure that comes in feeling like you should have your child in one more class or activity or you should be making them a little genius in ome more way at home. This is when we need to get our priorities from God’s Word as to what will help to raise a well-developed God follower.
There are a few priorities that we must have for a children. Of first importance is to bring them up in the fear and instruction of the Word so that we make their hearts soft for the opportunity for God to regenerate them. At a young age, the family time of worship will fulfill this category to a large degree, until children are old enough to teach how to spend individual time with the Lord. You can also store the word up in their heart by playing Christian music, talking about every day areas of life and how they relate to God and consistently pointing them to the gospel in your daily instruction and discipline. Of course, these are just a few of many ways.
Our relationship with the Lord should be of first importance with our own life as well. Nothing speaks more to a child than a parent who is consistently seeking the Lord. I am thankful that our children are aware that their daddy is down int he basement spending time with Jesus every morning.
This was going to be a short post, but maybe we could use this as a jumping board to talk about other necessary areas of our lives that must be developed in ourselves and our children to make us the full and complete people God created us to be.
Looking to spend my time wisely,
Erin
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