LEFT BEHIND FOR BAD BEHAVIOR?

[Margery]

This is where I am hopeful that homeschooling will give us more family time. We talk about the Bible, why things are bad all the time, in the car, while playing. I just want to be an open book for my kids and I try to use myself as an example. There was a lot of pride in my family growing up and I never want my kids to think they must be perfect and that I do no wrong. I’m the worst sinner in our home and have to constantly show them my repentance.

It gets tricky when the people rejecting God and doing sinful things are my siblings who see often. We’re always praying for them because my son is worried they’ll end up in Hell. It’s very sweet to see how much he wants them to know Jesus.

Deut 6:6-7
6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Look at these verses, and tell me that isn't happening in your home, because I recognize what you are doing, and that is EXACTLY what this passage is talking about.

YOU ARE DOING THIS!

Quantity time, that God uses to train up the child in the way he should go, so that when he is old he will not depart from it.

That's what I did. In fear and trembling because I'm human and I make mistakes, and I sin and fall short. But God takes that time given to Him by our commitment to be there with those children He entrusted into our care, and He makes it work.

 

[KMendel]

I find it interesting that even as an adult comes to the saving knowledge of Jesus, he enters Christ's "family" as a babe.
He is at first sipping the milk of the gospel and church doctrine. As he moves forward - (ages) in knowledge - he moves forward to
"the meat". Isn't that a picture of little children accepting Jesus as a babe, then growing and learning more as he moves forward in
life?? I truly believe little children can have a saving experience with Jesus, and it will grow as they grow, just like adult believers do.
That is why Jesus said do not withhold the little children from coming to me.....