I was always raised to believe God, but we never really walked in that faith. I come from a broken home. After remarrying, my father became steadfast in his faith. I only saw him maybe every other weekend and so I did not get to view the full teaching that he could have provided. I just floated through growing up going to church on the weekends I was at my dad's house. Not really listening to the Word at church not reading the Word on my own. Even now I am still guilty of not reading the Word everyday. I have heard that it takes approximately 30 days to begin a new habit, so I'm hoping that by joining the Bible in 90 days challenge (with my husband mind you) I will better ingrain the habit of reading it everyday.
My whole thought today is what can I do to raise my children to love hearing/reading/discovering the word. I want them to be thirsty for the Word. I want their first thought in the morning to be a prayer of thanksgiving for another day, and their last thought to be a thankful ending prayer for the experiences of that day. I know this is stuff that I have yet to make myself do consistently. And I wonder how I will be able to help teach this to my children if I am not walking this out. I want my husband and I to really raise the girls to love God and walk the path God has laid out for them. I see how dedicated the Duggar children are to the Lord and I so want our girls to be the same way.
Weekend before last, the girls and I made a trip to the library. I am checking out and reading books on family devotionals, how to enjoy the Bible together as a family, etc. I really want to follow the Biblical instructions for raising the girls.
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Prov 22:6
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