Integrity (4 of 6)
Series: Sound Bites for Parents
Joey Rodgers
Proverbs 10:9
Proverbs 22:6
I read a true story about a little boy in a market in CA who was standing at a fruit stand cramming grapes in his mouth as fast as he could w/ no parent in sight. The clerk stood there befuddled not knowing how to handle the situation as the boy pigged out on his grapes. Finally, to the clerk's relief, the boy's mother showed up. Sadly, all she said to her son was, ''Johnny, don't eat fast; you'll make yourself sick!''
I heard just yesterday that on the last day of school, some kids got on a bus and intentionally had a massive food fight trashing the bus and harassing the driver. Our kids ought to know better and as parents we should be livid?
What am I talking about? I'm talking about teaching our kids to have integrity and character - to not just know right from wrong but to live w/ a sense of morality, truth, and ethics.
If you haven't been here in a few weeks, we're in a series based on Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
To train up refers to the roof of the mouth as soon after birth, a Hebrew mid-wife would dip her fingers in a paste made of honey/dates and rub it on the gums of the newborn baby to create thirst to initiate the baby's feeding instinct.
Solomon was teaching us that in training up a child, our primary goal is to create a sense of thirst in our children for right things - more specifically - for the things of God.
As we've already discussed, many parents miss this vital truth b/c we're become more concerned w/ what our kids accomplish in life than we are who they become in life. But the great priority of Scripture isn't to raise kids who can be successful in the eyes of the world, but to raise kids who know/experience the heart/will of God in their daily lives.
You shall love the Lord your God w/ all your heart, w/ all your soul, and w/ all your strengt ...
Series: Sound Bites for Parents
Joey Rodgers
Proverbs 10:9
Proverbs 22:6
I read a true story about a little boy in a market in CA who was standing at a fruit stand cramming grapes in his mouth as fast as he could w/ no parent in sight. The clerk stood there befuddled not knowing how to handle the situation as the boy pigged out on his grapes. Finally, to the clerk's relief, the boy's mother showed up. Sadly, all she said to her son was, ''Johnny, don't eat fast; you'll make yourself sick!''
I heard just yesterday that on the last day of school, some kids got on a bus and intentionally had a massive food fight trashing the bus and harassing the driver. Our kids ought to know better and as parents we should be livid?
What am I talking about? I'm talking about teaching our kids to have integrity and character - to not just know right from wrong but to live w/ a sense of morality, truth, and ethics.
If you haven't been here in a few weeks, we're in a series based on Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
To train up refers to the roof of the mouth as soon after birth, a Hebrew mid-wife would dip her fingers in a paste made of honey/dates and rub it on the gums of the newborn baby to create thirst to initiate the baby's feeding instinct.
Solomon was teaching us that in training up a child, our primary goal is to create a sense of thirst in our children for right things - more specifically - for the things of God.
As we've already discussed, many parents miss this vital truth b/c we're become more concerned w/ what our kids accomplish in life than we are who they become in life. But the great priority of Scripture isn't to raise kids who can be successful in the eyes of the world, but to raise kids who know/experience the heart/will of God in their daily lives.
You shall love the Lord your God w/ all your heart, w/ all your soul, and w/ all your strengt ...
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