Becoming parents has changed Zach and I so much in so many different ways! I'm so thankful for that though because it has made us desire to be closer to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ! It has made us strive to raise our children for Him and Him alone. We cannot think about what people think of our parenting and how they may or may not agree with us. Our sole desire is to make our Lord happy with how we raise our children. So, how do we know that the Lord will be happy with our efforts? I'm glad you asked. He gave us a wonderful guide book call the Bible to show us the way. This BOOK is so amazing that it tells us everything we need to know about how to make it through this tough life, and most importantly, how to make into heaven for our life after this world! I love this BOOK! It challenges me to be the woman God wants me to be. It challenges me to be the parent God wants me to be. I think you would agree with me that our troubled world could use a GUIDE BOOK such as this. We can see from our troubled youth of today, that not many parents are using such a guide. God gave me two wonderful gifts in my children! I don't want to mess this up! I make mistakes of course, but I confess it and ask the Lord to help me do better. The Bible tells us to, "Hide God's Word in our hearts." meaning to memorize Scripture. Memorizing anything has always been a challenge for me, but not so with my little Ethan. He loves the Bible and truly enjoys memorizing Scripture! I'm so excited about his love for God's Word! I want to cultivate it! So we memorize Scripture so that one day Ethan will be completely filled with God's Word! Some parents choose to fill their children with movies, video games, and selfish desires. I'll ask you, which do you think is better? I pray that Ethan will one day love God's principles not because mom and dad say so, but because God says so. God has really challenged me lately to teach Ethan the Romans Road (thanks John and Tascha for this wonderful suggestion!) This is series of Scripture in the Bible, the book of Romans to be exact, that will show a person exactly how to get to heaven. Ethan has such a desire to tell others about this so the Lord laid it on my heart to give him the tools to do this! We've memorized four verses so far. There are more, but I would love to share with you the progress we have made! Here is a short video of my precious Ethan:
Please pray for us as we try to raise our children for the Lord. It can seem like a daunting task when we see such wickedness around us.
On a cute and funny note, I wanted to post a couple of pictures of Ayden right after his nap. His hair was so crazy!
I slept good!
Why are you looking at me like that?
3 comments:
That was WONDERFUL!!!
And I LOVE Ayden's hair :)
I love your post! David and I were talking about this exact thing last night. What do we want to put in his head? movies or Godly things? Godly things of course. Not "junk in, junk out". So proud of Ethan too! Plus, you have to be so careful about movies. Once you go down that road, it's hard to control it. I've seen other kids that all they talk about is movies. Sad.
LOL
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