This morning I believe I have gained a perspective most
people will never gain or appreciate. But I would like to share it with
whomever will listen/read.
We were sent here to earth to have a life, to gain knowledge
and a body that we would not have otherwise gained.
We have been taught that we are children of god and that he
loves us, watches over us, and wants nothing but for us to become perfect in
Christ and return to live with him again.
But do we realize also that in turn, includes our children?
Think about it. Our children are God’s children…..let me say
that again just to sink in…
Our children are God’s Children.
They aren’t ours. They aren’t our spouses, or the birth parents,
or whomever, they are God’s!
When they are sent here, they become our 100% responsibility.
They are not ours to rule, dictate, and demand. They are our responsibility to
manage, teach, and be an example to. But then of course we are still not their
greatest example either. Christ is.
God expects us to not only hold, love, and respect them, but
to teach them to love, respect, and honor thy mother and father. Their Heavenly
Mother and Father!
We have such precious little time in this life, and with
100% of it, we are given the responsibility to teach and show them everything
we know to become perfect in Christ. Obviously this is not easy, so they give
us help, they give us families, friends, religion, leaders, etc. etc. to help
us on our path to teach them, and to teach ourselves.
We don’t teach our kids everyday the things that mom and dad
love… hey look kid, this is important for you to learn because when you’re 80
you need to know who the BeeGee’s are. No. Yes we may show them a couple of things
like that, but they aren’t what we teach them. We don’t force them to learn all
the words to the songs put out by the Beetles, or know all Michael Jordan’s Air
moves. We teach them who the Savior was and about making right choices, about
prayer, and scriptures, and about the plan of salvation. We teach them to love
and fear God. How to show God that we are listening to his promptings and we
are willing to do whatever he asks of us.
But I think we miss how extremely important that is.
My husband and I have been discussing where we will be
sending our 3 yr old son to school in the next couple of years. But I believe
he is on the right track when he talks about how much he wants to home school.
Our world has become so corrupt and I believe our school systems teach only
what they want your children to learn. This means they are missing so many key
and important factors. In my family and life today I have realized that because
God gave us his children to be responsible to and for he wants us to be the one
to teaches them all that they should know.
This means that if they don’t learn key important things in
this life, that is our fault. If they make stupid mistakes that is our fault. I
believe that after the age of accountability they can start taking on some of
that blame, but we are still and will remain their parents; so again, our
fault.
We have to teach them to not only rely on us but to rely on
God. And if we or they need help who they can turn to for help and guidance.
Yes us, but more importantly, God.
I feel like in the Bible Hannah promised God that if she
were granted a son, that she would devote his whole life to God. She was then
blessed with Samuel. Yes 100% to devote our life to God by making the world a
better place, teaching God’s children the right path to take to come back to
God, to raise a God loving family, to learn and perfect our God given talents,
to serve others, and to love all. We all can still do this and we should.
