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Raising
a Godly Generation
“Train up a child in the way the Divine punishments are admin- Jeswin Mathew Thomas
he should go; even when istered without a touch of passion.
he is old he will not de- When parents punish their children, Same way it is the parents’ responsibil-
part from it. “(Proverbs 22:6) it often results in bad temper. For any ity to not only teach but to make the
child to be a “good” child he must child to practice God’s standards. As
Today upbringing of Christian be raised by God’s truth, even if the these commands have been taught to
children has become a great challenge parents do not acknowledge they are us by our parents, we ought to teach
for most of the parents; parents are doing so. We must train our chil- them to our next generation.
struggling for answers and strategies dren to trust God and live a spiritual
to be more effective in raising them life in which they walk in His Spirit. Make the children to understand
up. The new disturbing trend of chil- There are many voices telling us how the need for God’s blessing
dren and protecting them from those to parent, but the majority of them
trends has become more complex to reject to know God’s purpose for our Make the children to understand
parents. It has become the need of the children. Because many parents have God’s ways always bring the greatest
hour for parents to implement and been raised in secular thinking, their blessing. You can share your own testi-
maintain proper and effective bound- children are living as immorally as mony how God was faithful to you and
aries for their children. Bible says in the society around them. Hence, let the degree of how our lives are shaped
Deuteronomy 6:7, “You shall teach us think about how we can raise our by His teaching. Tell them that when
them diligently to your children, and children in a godly way. you carefully apply these teachings,
shall talk of them when you sit in your we can see that God’s promises fill our
house, and when you walk by the way, Make the children to understand lives. Part of this blessing is material
and when you lie down, and when you God’s standards
rise , so no parents can move away
from their responsibility.” “Now this is the commandment,
the statutes and the judgments which
Most of the time parents think the LORD your God has commanded
that by rebuking their children they me to teach you, that you might do
become alright but the real fact is that them in the land where you are going
children become more rebellious. In over to possess it.”Deuteronomy 6:1
order, to direct their children, parents
must first be able to govern them- Moses taught the Israelites God’s
selves. When we learn the scripture commands in order to help them live
godly lives among the heathen nations.
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ABU DHABI
