Sunday’s Food for Thought : Sharing One’s Faith to Little Ones
When it comes to sharing one’s faith and spirituality to little ones, many feel that bringing their children to church every Sunday, teaching them to pray and give thanks before their meals and occasionally reading Bible stories at home is … good enough.
Tedd Tripp shared some food for thought on this topic in his book ‘Shepherding A Child’s Heart’, and I’d like to share some passages of the book with you today.
Hope it can be a blessing to you as much as it has been to me personally.
Happy reading and have a blessed Sunday, everyone!
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It is our task as parents to faithfully teach our children the ways of God. It is the Holy Spirit’s task to work through the Word of God to change their hearts. It is a life of progressive growth.
What our children need is spiritual nurture. They need to be taught the ways of God. They need to understand that all of life rushes toward the day when we shall stand before God and give account. They need to learn about the pervasive effects of the fall on the human condition. They need answers to the great problems of life.
Parents, nurture your children. Tenderly encourage them to trust God. They need to trust Him not only for salvation, but for daily living.
Teach them how knowing God will make a difference in how they interact with their failures and successes. Knowing God will make a difference when they are afraid, angry, hurting, sinning, or sinned against. Knowing what God is like will speak to them when they are tempted.
Our children must understand that ‘Christian life’ not simply as living according to a biblical code, but as life in faith, commitment, and fellowship with the living God.
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‘Behold, children are a gift of the LORD …’
(Psalms 127:3)
‘Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.’
(Proverbs 22:6)
