Todays Lesson is compiled from a Reading Plan created by Parenting by Design, a Fort Worth ministry devoted to teaching parents to lead their children the way God, Our Perfect Parent, leads His children. I express my gratitude to YouVersion for their generosity in providing Parenting by Design Daily Devotional. Biblical Source: Ephesians 6:4 CEVUS06: Parents, dont be hard on your children. Raise them properly. Teach them and instruct them about the Lord. Todays Lesson: Rearing Your Children Properly God, Our Perfect Parent, entrusts children to us so we can nurture them to maturity Intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Our goal is to help them find and fulfill His Design for their lives and to teach them about the character of Christ. We usually think of training and instruction as words, but words can end up exasperating our children. Although Our Perfect Parents plan may involve some difficult times, teach your children that a strong character will help them through those times. The character we should be teaching them to adopt is the character of Christ. The choices they make and the consequences they face are opportunities to talk to them about the character of Jesus. They allow us to focus on what is going on inside our children rather than on their external behavior. Insight: Chip Ingram calls this teaching your child survival skills, as contrasted to spending most of your efforts ensuring their survival. Too often, we attempt to ensure survival by rescuing, nagging, or micromanaging, and we end up with children unprepared to face the world without us. Parenting with Grace: Redefine what it means to train and instruct your children about the character of Christ. ************ A generous thank you to Parenting by Design for providing their daily devotional. Please visit: ParentingbyDesign for more information about Parenting by Design.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:49:42 +0000
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