Like beget Like. There is a factor in the genes of living things that ensures that the characteristics of parent are transferred to their offspring. The same resemblance pattern goes in parent-child relationship.
Ungodly parent raise ungodly children except God work out their salvation through other means.
The same thing goes for godly parent, they raise up God fearing children if they give the salvation of their children all the attention and efforts it demands of it. Your child will definitely take after you as a parent so your lifestyle must be worthy of acceptation if you want your children own to be.
You as a parent must have a definite encounter before God and once you are saved your character is reformed, your world view is adjusted, your mind is renewed, and your life transformed it is then that you’ll be able to hold the lamb for your child to see the way of life too.
J.C. Ryle summarizes it all with this cogent exhortation: Take care, then what you do before a child.
A proverb says “Who sins before a child, sins double”
Be an example in temper, in diligence, in temperance, in humility and in God’s Word.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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