Count Your Blessings... Aloud to Your Children!

"Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them."

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Deuteronomy 4:9 NIV

Encouragement for the Young.

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, 

but set an example for the believers

in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity...

Watch your life and doctrine closely.

Persevere in them, because if you do,

you will save both yourself and your hearers. 

(1 Timothy 4:12, 16 NIV)

God's plan.

An excerpt from a parenting devotional I read today through my Bible app, entitled "God's Eternal Plan", based on one of the many lessons we can take from the story of Jacob in the book of Genesis.

Through all the disappointments (and the victories), Joseph remained confident that God was in control.

The Bible encourages us to adopt this perspective with our children. They are certain to experience trials and disappointments -- injuries, sickness, rejection by friends, failed tests and dropped balls. At times we may wonder if God truly has a plan. Joseph's story reminds us that God is bigger than our circumstances. Although we may not be able to grasp His overallplan now; one day we will be able to see the beautiful tapestry that has been woven out of the events of our lives and the lives of our children.

And we know that inall things God works for the good of those who love him (Rom 8:28 NIV, emphasis added). 

Look past trials and wait for God's response.

Daily Devotional by Parenting by Design

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