School is back in session for 2009-2010. Kindergarteners everywhere are entering into a new stage of life. College students are doing the same on the other end of the spectrum. Parents are left wondering where the time went.
As parents, we have the responsibility to prepare our children for life. Time with our children is a gift from God that we should not take for granted, because the passages of life come quickly.
There are several key principles in preparing your children for life that I want to encourage you to consider:
1) Your goal is to raise children who honor and glorify God no matter what course their life takes.
I Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
Too many parents focus on the potential professional and financial success of their children and get their priorities out of order in doing so. Your primary focus must be on your children coming to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and growing in their faith and becoming God honoring, God glorifying people.
2) You are raising your children with the goal of their becoming responsible, independent adults.
Take advantage of each passage of life and continue to help your children grow and develop and take on more responsibilities. Utilize every teaching opportunity you have to help them learn to stand on their own.
3) Enjoy each moment that God gives you with your children.
Don't dwell on yesterday, you can't bring it back. Don't worry about tomorrow, it is out of your control. Enjoy today, and thank God for it. You have a limited window of opportunity.
4) Pray for your children.
They are in God's hands. He can do a much better job of protecting them and guiding them than you can. He has entrusted them to you, but ultimately they belong to Him.
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6
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