Where ARE Your Children?

*Train* up a child… *IN* ~THE WAY~ he ~~Should~~ go: & when he IS old, he will not depart from *IT*…. (Proverbs 22:6) … Some folks say that this means that a child will leave the way that he has been taught, but will return when he is older…. Maybe this would be the way for some…. BUT… This IS NOT *AS IT IS Written* .. It reads when he IS old he will ~NOT~ depart from IT, {not that when he is older he will return to it}…
So many parents, and I stand on the front row with my hand held high as guilty, raise their children in the world, by the standards set by the world led by Satan… What looks good, everyone says IS good, we just accept and go on, especially when we are young and have doubts about how to raise a child ~~Right~~… Keep them safe, teach them the right things, let them be happy and lead joyful lives, by ~~Making~~ IT BIG IN Society….AND many parents don‘t want to control their children’s minds, but want to let them explore things on their own hoping that a little `Guinness` will emerge… *Dangerous*…
“BE ALL that YOU CAN BE”… But most times that *ALL* includes self destruction…
“LOOK”, at the child stars… their attitudes, their drug abuse habits, they chased ~Either~ their own dream or the dreams of their parents that pushed them to seek: Fame, Fortune, THE Better things of this life, with NO foundation or sure footing for: Their spiritually eternal life….
There are parents that take tiny children and dress them up like adults and parade them on stages for:: “Beauties Sake”… This IS the ~~Broad~~ path to destruction…
First you take something of value away from your child in this… Their ~Own~ identity.. By making them to be something artificial.. You are teaching them that they have to maintain a beautiful façade to get by in this life… replacing sincerity with false hopes, disappointment, pain, hurt, ~IF~ they don’t *WIN*, a ~~Competition~~ that IS NOT Biblically Sanctioned, and sending them into, hate, anger, selfishness, and jealousy, of the one that did win…you are, teaching them to be hypocrites, of this world, maybe unthinkingly,… as Jesus said:
(Matthew 23:27)..ye are like whitened sepulchres, (graves)..which ~~APPEAR~~ Beautiful~~ Outward, but within are full of dead men’s bones….. When you should be training them IN THE Way that leads unto **LIFE**
(Romans 10:15)… HOW beautiful are the feet of them that ~~Preach~~ The Gospel of Peace…
WE teach them to kneel and say a prayer at bedtime, a cute memorized prayer from a book for children… We teach them to be good or Santa Claus will not come and bring them gifts. We work hard at teaching them all the popular fun things of the world, the fads, trends, and today the art of working the cell phones, ipods, & video games to keep them entertained, give them something to do to occupy their time… but we are setting them upon a crumbling foundation,
instead of doing ~~THE TWO~~ *MOST* Important things that a parent could ever do, & That IS First, prove ourselves, responsibly, obedient, to God’s Will and Way, and *Teaching our children TO BE Responsibly Obedient to God also…. *IF* we first read and learn of the way that we should walk in this world, from God’s Book OF ALL Instruction, Turn away from the ways of the world and the traditions of men, then we would be better parents, teachers, servants in God’s Kingdom….
But we as parents fall so very short when after we have given them a written prayer, then we place into their tiny hands, a game of destruction… A- BB gun, paint gun, we teach them to ~~Kill~~ their enemy in so many ways… We tell our young girls to abstain from sex until marriage, but then we dress them up like ~~Hookers~~ because that is the modern day trends and fashions… We allow them to watch the, filth of this world on the TV’s, idolize movie stars, seeking to dress, act like, and talk like them… In other words we teach them all, boys and girls, from the cradle up, *Double Standards*…
INSTEAD of, manning up, to coin a modern phrase, AND giving them a sound footing of Protection IN God’s Written Word…
Teaching them to talk with the Father in the Name of and Through Jesus Christ HIS Son, opening the link of verbal communication with our Maker & theirs, that NO Person on this earth, can break….. Giving them a walk that they can feel safe and actually be safe IN, Protection, that IS Unmovable, by any predator… WHY? Because we don’t ~~Keep~~ first ourselves, away from the thorns and snares of the world led by Satan, by letting them alone, and secondly we don’t keep our children away from them, we just mumbling, tell them be careful, don’t get *too* involved in this, it isn’t a good thing… OR you should put on more clothes, that doesn’t look nice, followed with, “Well, it’s your body if you want to show IT”. Guidance?
Then even IF we paid attention to the Bible’s teaching against tattoo’s, what do we do to discourage our children from breaking Bible principle? Paint their faces and generously buy and give them stick on tattoo’s, excusing our OWN actions, with, “this is just a game… they know it ain’t real” … Maybe, BUT! How often in the world of *IT Ain’t Real*, does one get too involved and ~~OD~~ join in deadly games, for ~~FUN~~…??? “Russian Roulette IS an Ain’t Real Game, BUT IT IS Deadly FOR ONE Ain’t IT? AND IF That one is your child, then IT Becomes ~~REAL~~ fast!
Mom, Dad, Sunday School Teacher, Church Leader, ~~HOW~~ MANY~~ Games do you play with the little children, compared to the sincere teaching of God’s Written Word, the teachings of obedience, respect, understanding ~TRUE~ right from ~worldly~ wrong, setting good moral examples for them to follow??? What IS The ratio? Have you paid attention TO: How many times have you sloughed off needed discipline of your child, onto a fable, a fairy tale, compared to how many times have you said, “God our Father in Heaven, WHO created you and gave you to us to care for, IS watching, and HE Does not approve of this action, according to the *Book OF Instruction* That HE gave us to follow, AND HE Loves you, and I Love you, so you should, we must, learn to respect HIS Commands and leave that completely alone”, can you count them even on ~One finger~?
OR do you speak as so many do, I don’t want to influence ~~MY~~ child to believe what I believe, I want him/her to find their own belief, because so many times children resent their parents for making them learn to be Christians….. SO our disciplinary answer IS: well do what you think IS right, cause God Loves you and wants *YOU* to be happy… Another double standard… A failed parent, a vain self-centered teaching that has brought about many of the conditions of today’s youth……
(Proverbs 22:5)… “Thorns & Snares, are in the way of the froward: (Unrestrained, undisciplined in behavior): he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.” (Who goes about sprinkling Thorns into the things that are good to make folks become entangled in the Snares of :: Satan?… The false prophet, the antichrist, and yes they are here and very active now… They ain’t gonna come here tomorrow, for they are present now and have been for years…. AND *IF* these thorns and snares are ~~IN THE WAY~~ of the forward… They lie in wait, as an unsuspecting steal trap in the path of an animal, baited with something tasty, to draw the: “Froward .. <meaning: stubborn, disobedient> Person”… to IT… && who IS stubborn and disobedient today, only those who are unsaved?? OR, those who claim to know Christ, but refuse to follow His Way, because they are set and toooo busy blazing their ~~OWN~~ trails through this life… dragging their children in tow in the aftermath of their own sin…. Claiming that Jesus has covered this sin already so IF we commit it then we are still saved, and our sin IS Hidden in the blood of Christ….. *IF* this IS Truth, then why is there so many warnings about turning away from, coming out of it, having nothing to do with IT, being ~transformed, meaning, changed into something else, not continuing on the same track,~ by the renewing of our minds, into a new creature and ---Not being ~~Conformed~~ means: to comply or to be in agreement with something that already is fixed~~ to this world… ~~AS this world IS Already destined to destruction, and IF we run around in it taking part in it‘s ways that lead to death, then where will we be, on that day? …(Romans 12:1-2)
(Proverbs 22:15)…. “Foolishness IS bound ~IN~ the heart of a child; but the ~Rod~ of Correction, will drive IT Far from him”…. Many folks take this to mean to beat a child with a rod, and this sounds cruel and we turn from *IT’S* True Message and meaning… BUT< *THE ROD* OF Correction IS: THE Same AS *THE SWROD* IS ~~THE Written Word OF God, THE BIBLE….
(Hebrews 4:12)…. “FOR The Word OF God IS: Quick, & Powerful, & Sharper than any two edged sword, dividing asunder the soul and the spirit, a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart…
(Ephesians 6: 17) Take on the helmet of Salvation, AND THE ~Sword~ Of The spirit, Which ~~IS~~ the Word of God….
(Ephesians 4) Ye, fathers provoke ~~NOT~~ your children to wrath: BUT *Bring them up* in the nurture and admonition of the Lord….
(Ephesians 6:1) .. Children *OBEY* your parents IN the Lord, for this *IS* Right…
You know, I heard a news commentator talking about, the discipline in Japan… The difference in the attitudes of the children and young adults as well as the older folk, in the aftermath of this latest earthquake, in comparison to the aftermath of Katrina here… And according to the news reels that I have seen, there ~IS NO~ looting, no one complaining, shouting in anger somebody needs to give, give, give to us, do for us, cause we lost everything we had…. BUT they are helping each other.. They are making do with what they have, and ~~Working~~ to dig themselves out and rebuild… children also….
Could the difference possibly BE: Training? They have been taught respect, respect for their elders, for their country, for the land.. They possess honor.. Of their parents. They are obedient to their parents… and elders… Oh, there may be some that have taken on ~~The Western cultural behavior~~ of rebellion, gang like attitudes, but the ratio compared to this country is remarkably obvious….
YES, we are living in ~~Times~~ hard to deal with, and we are just as busy as little beavers, running around, searching for that Sweet release, having a good time in the world, seeking all that ~IT~ has to offer in ~~Entertainment~~ making Satan smile all the way to the bank, totin the money that we spend on foolishness that he so cunningly placed on sale for us to take pleasure in, teaching our children to ~~HAVE FUN~~, rather than leading them TO BE Obedient TO God’s Will and Way, giving the proper fear and respect TO God, and to their elders… FOR THIS MEANS: their eternal life…...