In parenting or working with children we need to model the message. Pastor Brian always reminds us that attitudes are more easily caught than taught. Kids pay more attention to what you do than what you say. The potential for modeling what you want your kids to learn exists in every moment even though sometimes you may wish that there was an off switch or pause button. Kids are always watching and taking it all in; the good with the bad. I found a quote by Joyce Maynard that admonishes parents on the same principle. "It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
God has given us the charge of raising His little ones, and we need to carry that out faithfully. It's time to take careful inventory of our lives. 2 Corinthians 3:2-3 "You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." Our lives are the textbooks that children are reading and learning from. Determine in your heart today to walk your talk and BE the message that you want your children to hear.
*I would also like to invite you to our upcoming free community carnival and new four week series Parenting starting on Easter Sunday.
http://www.crosspointechurch.tv/easter.html
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