Love this picture! One thing that I’ve come to understand about rearing my children in the Lord, is that I can’t make them worship God. But my job is to position them to worship God. I’ve striven to be mindful of the distractions that I ALLOW them to have that interfere with the seed of God’s word being planted in their impressionable spirits. In addition, I’m also mindful of my own distractions and the example that I set for them as a woman of God. Am I an engaged worshipper of God? Am I a consistent worshipper of God? Am I a worshipper of integrity? Is the God I proclaim on Sundays demonstrated in my life on Mondays thru Saturdays? Is the God that’s apparent in my public life, the same God that’s apparent in my private life? How does the inconsistencies or consistencies of my walk with the Lord affect how my children develop respect, admiration, obedience & awe for God? Have I shown them that God isn’t a priority by the way I live, all the while telling them that He’s priority by the way I talk? Am I a hypocrite? Have I taken seriously this ministry of stewardship called parenting? Do I understand the consequences for failing to do so? I know that the greatest gift that I can ever give to my children is a personal commitment to God, myself. I know that, in my best efforts as a parent, God is able to give my children what I can not.
*tj
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