Do You Know Where are Your Children Right Now?

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Do You Know Where Are Your Children Right Now?

Where are they heading to?

What do we want them to become?

Challenging questions. Got many of us reflecting and thinking.

What are we doing to turn our children's spiritual dial, to set them in the God-ward direction? Do we see ourselves, moms, parents as the primary influencer in the spiritual development of our children? Or we know and acknowledge that we are the primary influencer and therefore, we are doing our part by 'sub-contracting' the job out by faithfully bringing them to Sunday School, small groups, getting the right story books for them to read etc? Is this what we mean by being the primary influencer?

We had a very enlightening sharing and discussion as the moms share from their childhood experiences of how their parents influenced them spiritually and left an impact on their lives. We also see that how we portray God to our children will also influence our children's perception of God and hence relationship with God. Do we use God's name in frivolously or threaten our children with severe punishment from God when they do wrong?

Today's discussion challenged us to reflect upon what we have been doing with our children in terms of directing them to God. It also challenges us to think about our own relationship with God. Unless we have a relationship with God, we can't be directing our children along this path to help them withstand the storms ahead.

Some good thoughts to ponder over for this weekend....