If we will dedicate ourselves and our children to God, then He will guide us and teach us how to be good parents. We need no further instruction than that.
How to be a Good Parent: Dedicate Yourself to God
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Life is Short: Do the Most Important Things
It’s easy to just get busy in the day to day part of living and forget the important things. Live a life that’s pleasing to God and that will matter to others.
Belonging to God
We love our children just because they are ours & the Israelites were blessed just because they were His. Our children don’t earn our love by doing good things & they can’t lose our love by doing something wrong. The Israelites also could not earn or lose God’s love & neither can we. Once we become His child, we belong to Him forever.
What Are You Willing to Sacrifice?
always give our best to God. We shouldn’t offer Him only the things we don’t want to control or possess ourselves. We shouldn’t offer what is useless to us or what is left over. God is worthy of the most valuable & useful things in our lives. He deserves priority over everything. We are insufficient to control anything in our lives. He alone is powerful & trustworthy. We have no right to hold on to our possessions, because everything we have was given to us by Him in the first place & everything belongs to Him anyway.
Who’s in Charge?
“He died for all, that those who live, should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” 2 Corinthians 5:15 We may say that Jesus is our Lord & Savior, but do we mean it? We are thankful He is our Savior. We …