The Bible has a lot to say about child care. God intended children to be cared for physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in a loving and caring home environment. He wanted parents to leave an inheritance to their children. He wanted children to grow up to be responsible citizens who would bless the current generation and generations to come. Here are some highlights that we could use to pay attention to on this day of decline for our families.
There is family honor. The father was to be the spiritual leader in the home. The mother was to be the caregiver. The children were to be the students. Children were to learn by precept and example. The family would bond with the church and the community. God was going to be number one in everything they did in word and deed.
If family honor is not applied in a spirit of love and goodwill, here are some natural results:
1. Children could get into the wrong crowd and become rebellious towards their God and their society.
2. Parents can set a bad example for their children and cause great confusion at home.
3. Children can develop an irresponsible lifestyle that is destructive to themselves and others.
4. The family can challenge the authority of God and its spiritual and political leaders.
5. Children who are not taught moral values are likely to degenerate into immoral adults.
6. If we give children everything they want, they can become selfish adults.
7. When children are expected to be perfect in everything, they are more likely to rebel.
8. If children’s misbehaviors are not corrected through proper discipline, they will self-destruct.
9. When children are not properly disciplined, they may want to blame others for their shortcomings.
10. If children are not brought up in the “discipline and admonition of the Lord”, they will fall into many destructive things, such as drug abuse, spiritual darkness, ungodly lifestyles, etc.
In a word, if we don’t lead our family according to Christian principles, our nation will continue to destroy itself.
We have done great harm to our children and our society when we allow our Christian values to be sown to the winds of change by those who hate God. You see, we are not an “island” to ourselves. What happens in your family is going to affect mine. It will influence your neighbor, your country and your world. Because of this, our society has the right and the duty to require every person (citizen or foreigner) who is on our grounds to live in accordance with the “Golden Rule” and The Ten Commandments as established in Exodus 20: 1-17 and Deuteronomy 5.: 6-21. This includes honoring the triune Lord God of Glory as our Creator and Redeemer. It means loving “God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength.” It demands that we “love our neighbor as ourselves” and respect our God-honoring spiritual leaders as men and women of God. This will take us back to our Bible and its absolute values of good and evil.
In the United States of America we have a great blessing. Our Founding Fathers gave us a Christian heritage and a republican form of government based on The Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 6: 6-9 says: “And these words that I command you today, will be in our hearts: And you will teach them diligently to your children, and you will speak of them when you sit at home, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down and when you get up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as fronts before your eyes. And you shall write them on the posts of your house, and on your doors. “See also Deuteronomy 11: 18-21 . This is not a suggestion for a select few. This is the glue that holds societies together.
Proverbs 22: 6a tells us to “instruct the child in the way to go.” The children were not allowed to choose a path that was destructive to themselves, their family, or their society. If they rebelled, they were disciplined. If they continued to rebel, they were judged.
Parents were commanded not to “provoke” their children “to anger,” but to “bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.” (See Ephesians 6: 4).
1 Timothy 5: 8 tells us that if we do not provide for our family, we have “denied the faith” and are worse than a barbarian. Parents must support their families. The state and our community do not have this obligation. If people are “down,” the Christian thing is to provide for them until they recover. This responsibility rests with the church, not the government.
Jesus said in Matthew 18: 6 that it would be better for a person to have a millstone tied around their neck and thrown into the sea than to “offend” a child who “believes” in Him. This would indicate that we should help our children reach God’s redeeming grace at an early age. This will keep them away from a host of problems in their old age.
Psalm 106: 36-38 says: “And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters. , whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. ” Compare Micah 6: 7. This would hit the very roots of our abortion practices. See Ezekiel, chapters 20 and 23.
This is just a summary of God’s care for children and their families. Anyone who tries to change God’s laws to serve corrupt-minded men and women is not only an enemy of God, but also an enemy of our children. They are not only abusing our children, they are also abusing us.
What do I say? It is quite obvious that abused children grow up into adults who become tyrants and social misfits. The Bible puts it this way. “When the righteous rule, the people rejoice. When the wicked rule, the people weep.” The only way we can have stable families in a stable society is to have well-cared for children. The greatest abuse of children is to corrupt their hearts and minds through ungodly government and school.