SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/8/2019
8:29 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The
Submission of Children”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
6:1-3
Message of the verses: “1 Children, obey
your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and
mother," which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be
well with you and you may live long on the earth’” (NKJV).
We
continue to talk about children and their parents in this SD, noting that a child
can have no greater inheritance than the godly teaching and the examples of his
parents as we see in Proverbs 7:1-3: “1 My
son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you. 2 Keep my
commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on
your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.” Now remember that Solomon was writing these
proverbs to his son in order for his son to live a life that is pleasing to the
Lord.
A
child who is obedient to his or her parents is a joy to raise and live with,
but according to Proverbs 10:1 a disobedient child bring the opposite “A wise
son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.” Let us look at some more verses from Proverbs
“He who sires a fool does so to his sorrow, And the father of a fool has
no joy” (Pr. 17:21). “A foolish son is
destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant
dripping” (Pr. 19:13). Looks like this
man has double trouble.
John
MacArthur writes “The world today has much to say about children’s so-called
rights. But the emphasis should be on
their responsibilities. Emphasis on
rights—whether by children or adults—weakens and destroys relationships on
every level. It is the sense of
responsibility that builds right relationships as well as right character.
If
we look at the second chapter of Luke we will see that even Jesus had to grow
in the ways every child grows. “51 And
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to
them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And
Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke
2:51-52). Jesus grew intellectually, physically, spiritually, and
socially.
Children
today must grow in all of these ways so that they will live a life that is
pleasing to the Lord. Jesus was the
perfect example for all of us, even when He was a child.
Now
because today is Sunday, this SD will be shorter than most of the ones done
during the week, but I will add that if you take a look at the words that are
highlighted above you can see that one can look at them and figure out how
children are to grow in each of those categories. It is up to the parents to teach the children
these ways. One of the ways that I found
that worked for our family when our children were home was to make sure that
the things that I taught them at home went along with the things that they were
learning in Sunday school, church, and also in their school, and that is why I
sent my children to a Christian school, and then to a Christian college.
Today’s very short quotation from “Love
in Action” is as follows:
Blessed
be the God,…the Father of mercies [encouragement].
II
Corinthians 1:3.
9/8/2019 9:46 PM
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