Are helping the next generation become "spiritually strong"? It won't happen without purposeful effort on our part.
Luke begins his gospel with two incredible stories. The first, of John the Baptists' parents, Zechariah & Elizabeth, and the second about Mary. These were amazing people who God considered faithful and capable of raising the a great prophet and the Lord of the universe! These were entrusted with the fragile infancy and childhood of God's chosen leaders!
God has entrusted little ones to us. What are we calling them to become? Are we working hard to see them become men and women of God? Are we modeling for them lives lived to please Jesus? Will they value obedience to Christ because that is our highest value? Or will it be something else? I pray we all will take our responsibility seriously.
Invest in what matters forever in the lives of our children!
it is so easy to fall into so many things that fall so short of eternal life in knowing Christ when instruction our children (and in our own contemplations and aspirations)
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