I find I get a lot of weird looks when I say how I parent. I want my kids to have a solid foundation of God before they are sent out into the world to live their adult lives. Our society seems to think lets just let our kids out into the world first without a solid foundation, then parents wonder what went wrong? Why do my kids not want to go to church? Why do my kids do drugs?
We have to teach our kids what God thinks of them. We have to get them away from the thinking that what they do is who they are. I want my kids to know what God says about them.
They are loved. John 3:16
They are chosen. Ephesians 1:4
They are blessed. Ephesians 1:3
They are forgiven. Ephesians 1:7
They are holy, blameless, adopted, redeemed, sealed with the Holy Spirit.
I went to a conference this weekend. One of the workshops stated that we need to impart the identity our children have in Christ. She used a gift bag as an example. The gift bag was full of things we impart to our kids as part of their identity, athlete, smart, talented, but the gift bag was flawed, there was no way to seal it shut. So, when our children lost a game (athlete) they became a failure, so athlete "fell out". They lost their identity. She then took a very nice gift box, one that is sealed ith a tight fitting lid. Inside were the identities we have in Christ, already there, they did not have to be put in because it is part of the gift given to us because of Jesus Christ. Those identities we carry with us every day. They do not fall out due to a flawed gift bag. This perfectly sealed gift, Jesus Christ, never falls apart, never dumps out our identity for us to be left with nothing. It remains the same throughout our lives.
Wow! I wish I had been taught these things when I was younger. My identity became what I did or who I dated. It was not an identity in Christ sealed with the Holy Spirit. Don't wait. Impart Christ to your children before the world tells them their identity.
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