Title: Let Our Children Be Blessed
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If you look at the Bible, you will see that there are blessed children and successful children, but there are also many failures and judgments. Today's text records the story of Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. Although Eli's two sons stood in the most blessed circumstances and chosen class, their lives ended in unhappiness. Today, our children are not unhappy children, but happy children, and we should all become successful children, not children of failure and misfortune. How can we raise our children to be blessed children, successful children, and how can we ourselves be blessed?
1. We must raise them as children who respect God.
The secret to a successful child is well recorded in Proverbs 3:1-10. In other words, if you keep the word of God well, you will be blessed with long life and peace, and you will receive grace and value in the sight of God and people.
Proverbs 3:6 says that the way our children's future is guaranteed is "acknowledging God in everything." Recognizing God means living according to God's will, methods, and God's guidance, and living that way will prosper. The secret to a successful life is to cherish God, to know God first, and to honor Him with all your heart and soul.
If you respect God, please believe that God takes responsibility for the lives of these people and respects them.
2. We must raise them as children of living faith.
We need to raise our children as children of proper faith, not just churchgoers. Eli's two sons are priests who are to make intercession between God and the people. They are also the people who should instruct the people to live righteously. However, they became thieves who took the sacrifices offered by the people. (1 Samuel 2:29, 14-15) Also, in verse 17, it is said that they despised the sacrifices of the Lord. Why is there such a lack of faith among those who are priests? Verse 12 says, “The sons of Eli were wicked and did not know the Lord.” This is surprising. These are priests, and it makes no sense to say that they do not know God. This means that they offered sacrifices to God in the morning and evening and offered intercessory prayers on behalf of the people, but they only pretended to go to church and worship. Therefore, we must pray in order to know what the mission is to us and our children, to our family, and to our church. And let's hold onto our mission and become a person of vital faith who lives by fulfilling our mission.
3. Parents must first set the example of faith.
Verse 30 of today's text says, "Whoever honors me I will honor, and those who despise me I will despise." If you respect God first before respecting your own children, God will respect your children and honor them in the world.
Do you want your children to be successful in your life and be a blessed person?
First, honor God.
Second, make them children of living faith. Don't just care about your school grades, you should also care about your church's religious grades.
Third, set an example of faith. Because children imitate their parents.
In the name of the Lord, I pray in the name of the Lord that the Word given today will be engraved in our hearts and that every heart that decides to follow it will receive glory, our Lord, and that our children will become blessed children and successful children.