Are
you a parent or planning to be one? You are required to train up your child in
the right way to go. Parenting could be good, smooth, interesting, inspiring,
fruitful and highly rewarding when it occurs within a family – a Christian
home. This is a place where the husband, wife and children live together in
love and peace, devoted to God and to each other.
Conversely, parenting is bad,
frustrating, destructive, unfruitful and punitive in an ungodly family. The
nearest thing to hell on earth is the ungodly home, broken by sin and iniquity.
It is a place where children are given to the forces of wickedness and are
brought up with scarcely any training at all. Is your family a Christian Home
or an ungodly one? Children are the heritage of the Lord and should be brought
up in the fear of God.
The key person in carrying out this responsibility is
the father. Joseph in Matthew 2:14 demonstrated this by taking care of the
young Jesus and his mother. Are you a father? It is your duty to care for every
member of your family. Children learn by precepts and examples. They learn to
either love God or dishonour Him from your disposition to God and to the things
of God. They also learn from the way you treat their mother. Are you a father?
It is your duty to love, honour and respect your wife. Let the children know
that you respect their mother and hold her in high esteem. Stop scolding your
wife. Appreciate your wife’s efforts in keeping the house, in caring for you
and the children and for going through the vexing things that come along with
the daily duties of home life. Reward your wife as much as you can. The most
reliable partner in parenting is the mother. Are you a Christian mother? It is
your duty to be submissive to your husband and his leadership role. You should
respect and admire your husband, and be a good home keeper.
For good parenting, both husband and wife
should work hard to appreciate each other as they did in courtship. The spirit
of courtship should continue throughout married life.
Proverbs
22:6 says: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.”
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