Making Relationships with Your Children
a Priority
a Priority
by Pam Forster, Doorposts
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With all the good and necessary tasks and opportunities that demand our attention each day, it is good to remember what God has to say about our responsibility to nurture relationships within the family.
1. We are responsible to build relationships.
God has commanded us to disciple our children. To do this, we must have strong, healthy relationships with them.
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deuteronomy 6:5-7)
2. God says that our relationship with Him is demonstrated through our our relationship with people.
We express our love for God by how we love those made in His image.
"And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also." (1 John 4:21)
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:30-31)
3. Treasure the opportunity and privilege God has given us.
We can display God's love as we lay down our lives for our children, as we spend time with them, disciple them, love them, and teach them God's Word.
"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" (1 John 3:16-17)
4. Love is demonstrated through actions!
We must invest time and energy building a foundation of love and trust that leads our children to welcome and value our instruction.
"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." (1 John 3:18)
5. The season of childrearing is short! Use it well!
"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:12)
"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." (Psalm 103:15)
With all the good and necessary tasks and opportunities that demand our attention each day, it is good to remember what God has to say about our responsibility to nurture relationships within the family.
1. We are responsible to build relationships.
God has commanded us to disciple our children. To do this, we must have strong, healthy relationships with them.
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deuteronomy 6:5-7)
2. God says that our relationship with Him is demonstrated through our our relationship with people.
We express our love for God by how we love those made in His image.
"And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also." (1 John 4:21)
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:30-31)
3. Treasure the opportunity and privilege God has given us.
We can display God's love as we lay down our lives for our children, as we spend time with them, disciple them, love them, and teach them God's Word.
"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" (1 John 3:16-17)
4. Love is demonstrated through actions!
We must invest time and energy building a foundation of love and trust that leads our children to welcome and value our instruction.
"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." (1 John 3:18)
5. The season of childrearing is short! Use it well!
"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:12)
"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." (Psalm 103:15)
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