Title: Raising Your Children Like This
Contents Raise your children like this (Matthew 19:13-15)
Today is Children's Day. How to raise a young child It is said that a person's taste buds are formed at the age of four. So the food I ate when I was young is good. When you think about this, your values, happiness, and philosophy of life are inherited from your parents when you are young. And live with this for the rest of your life. That is why the education of young children is so important. Then, how should we raise the children that God has entrusted to us when we are young?
Second, we must bring them to Jesus. They must be raised in the temple. Today Jesus said to his disciples, Bring me a little child! The children of our family are not mine, but God's. Therefore, it must be raised in the temple. In 1 Samuel 1 and 2, Hannah offered Samuel, which she had obtained through prayer, to the temple as soon as she was weaned. How could you do that? It was because Hannah had faith that it was God who claimed the blessings of life and death. As a result, as Samuel grew up, he received more favor from Jehovah and others (1 Samuel 2:26). Let us have this faith too!
Fourth, we need to teach young children to respect adults. You must obey the words of an adult and teach manners to bow your head in front of an adult. These days, children do not recognize adults because they lack respect. According to the collection of essays by Lee Ee-ryeong, there are two things that modern people have lost. His father lost his beard and his mother lost love. It is a time when both father's authority and mother's love have been lost. Solomon in Proverbs 23:13-14 tells us to give correct instruction even with a whip. Parents who abuse their children ruin their children, but they overprotect their children and ruin their children even when they see them as idols. It is said that the mother of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had her own rules when raising 19 children well. First, never grant the wishes of a crying child. Second, forgive anything you confess with a happy heart. Third, always praise and reward good deeds. Fourth, if you have made a promise, be sure to keep even the smallest promise.