For the last two Mondays, Ivan and I have attended a DVD series on parenting being shown at a little local country church. The series is called “Shepherding a Child’s Heart” by Ted Tripp, and I have been blessed and inspired.
What stands out to me from this Monday’s session is this: our children, like all of us, are created to worship. If they do not worship God, they will worship something else, subtle idols of the heart such as pride and performance, power, money, material things, lust and pleasure, fear of man, or people’s approval. (These indicators also point to idols in our own heart.)
Our job as parents is to teach our children about God, a Being worthy to be worshipped. We cannot expect them to be dazzled by Him unless we ourselves live in worship. The first step in turning our children’s hearts toward God is to be ourselves first dazzled.
He’s a good author!
This post is great. The church needs this kind of teaching. When I became a mama I didn’t have those teachings. Thank you so much!
I am so thankful for teaching like this offered at a time that I need it!