Friday, February 26, 2016

Solid foundation

Proverbs 22: 6
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

How did you learn about God?  For many of us, we were taught as children.  Some of us, I’m sure were not and had a friend or someone else that loved us enough to share God’s love with us.  No matter how you found God, now that you know him, my prayer is that you will never turn from Him. 

For any of us that were raised to know God or have children of our own, it is so amazing to watch God blossom in the life of a small child.  I grew up in the church and I know my mom loved watching as I would learn new Bible verses or new songs about God.  I love now seeing that in my son.  Just this week he started saying the Lord’s Prayer all by himself.  We’ve been doing it as a family every night however earlier this week he told my husband and I, “No, I do it.”  He wanted to show us that he could say it all by himself.  I loved this!

Sometimes when this verse comes up, some will talk about people who were raised in the church then went off to college and stopped going to church.  Can that happen?  Of course it can.  It’s not that uncommon as someone wants to “find themselves”.  However the seeds that were planted years before do grow and at some point, that person finds themselves needing God again or wondering is what they were taught truth.  This isn’t to say that no one ever departs from God.  God did give us free will.  However when a child starts off on the correct path, they have that foundation and the foundation that we have is typically what we turn back to in times of need or trouble. 

Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.


Are you building a solid foundation in your life and the lives of those that you impact?  You don’t have to have your own children to impact the lives of others.  

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