Are Your Children Obedient and Happy? Part 4-Be Still Before God

Mother's, Be Still Before God, Listen and Learn From Him

Please see Are Your Children Obedient and Happy?
Part 1
Part 2

Part 3

In the last post of this series I have spent a great deal of time addressing the attitude of mothers in obedience to Authority. The godly wife's first priority in obedience is to God and then to her husband.
(For the single mother, her first priority in obedience is to God, then perhaps she can find a pastor or an elder to place herself under... this is a touchy area for many single mothers, but I would encourage them to place themselves under some-kind of authority in the body of Christ. This would be a matter of prayer and seeking God for direction. I do believe it is prudent to do since we as women need strong direction and support in many areas of decisions to be made.)

For the godly mother, her attitude in obedience to God and to her husband is crucial for training the children to be obedient to authority. If you have not read part 3 in this series, please do!

I have been grieved. Our youth in America are being destroyed by the evil mentality of false teaching, being corrupted. Parents are deceived, so many, many have looked to the ideals of man for direction in training their children. Parents themselves have been raised with the ideals of man and know nothing else. What are the ideals of man? Among a few: To raise a child with high self esteem, a drive to achieve a good life with a proud heart and sensitive not to offend others. I'm sure you can add to this list... it could fill this blog!

The ideals of man are opposite of what God desires for us.. (For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. (1 Corinthians 3:19) Man's ideals are about man and what is good for man. God's plan for us is to bring glory to Himself... it's not about us nor our happiness, but there is no true happiness without God!

• The people of God should not be conformed to this world and it's ideals.( And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2)
  
  
• The people of God should reject the advice of the ungodly in training of children since the ungodly are at enmity with God and cannot understand the mind of God, because they do not have the Spirit of God. (Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1 Corinthians2:12)
  
• The people of God should look to God in training their children. God's Holy Word has all the answers for us and instructs us in training our children. (I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye. Psalms 32:8)
  
  
• The people of God should take the job of training their children for God very seriously. (Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6)

Oh mothers! Please! we must set priorities straight! We must stop placing friends, activities, television, movies, our own comforts, and many other things in front of raising our children for God! Yes there are social pressures that seem to demand your involvement in activities outside of the home, but are these pressures from God or man? Have we created these pressures by taking too much on and saying, "yes" to too many things when asked to do them?

The best thing for us to do is to be still before God and let Him direct our path. For those who feel that their life is in a mad whirl wind, Be Still before GOD. (Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalms 46:10)
Dear, dear mothers, if you feel you are too busy to be still before God, and cannot find time with Him... in reading His Word, praying and seeking His face, asking Him-to direct your path, and quietly listening for Him to speak to your heart, then dear heart... You are too busy! This is not good and not of God. Remember that we have an arch enemy that wants to snatch you away from God and as a result deprive your children of rich blessings, since you cannot train them for God. Think and pray, ask God to help you to have the time, and perhaps remove certain activities from your life.

I have so many things to say on this subject. I too must keep my priorities straight!

For now... May our sweet Lord Jesus Christ direct you and help you in training your children for HIM!

In the next post I plan to write about: " So Called, Disorders of Children"

Trials Of Affliction ...C.H. Spurgeon - 1834-1892

"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." --Acts 14:22

God's people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, he included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they were predestinated for us in Christ's last legacy. So surely as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: he has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the "Father of the faithful." Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction. It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King's vessels of honour are distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God's children, they have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they have his presence and sympathy to cheer them, his grace to support them, and his example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach "the kingdom", it will more than make amends for the "much tribulation" through which they passed to enter it.

C.H. Spurgeon - 1834-1892