You have reasoned that you cannot keep your children in a system that is not consistent with your faith; that your children must be part of a system that will give them a mind like Christ and characters without fault; Be of good cheer, in God you have wisdom and help.
I have seen that when Gods counsels are heeded, and his people are fervent to do his will, God takes them by his hand and leads them to raise strong children. I have seen this in many families recently but let me tell you about one family and how one of their children is doing under Gods program.
I’ll refer to this child by the name ‘capable child’. Mentally, physically and spiritual, capable child is growing. Capable child is a thoughtful, hardworking and studious young person. And what has shaped capable child to be strong? I’ll tell you what I have observed.
Spiritual development
There is family worship in the home, where capable child also gets to lead out. It seems capable child also has a personal relationship with Jesus. Capable child does personal research in the Bible and can converse with you about Revelation 13 and 14. And capable child often asks questions after sermons and those questions are met with enthusiastic and patient answers from the parents.
Can you see why capable child is strong spiritually? I believe it’s because capable child’s parents have been investing effort to put Gods ideas before capable child. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. Capable child’s parents are also studious persons themselves, who make an effort to do as they learn from God.
Mental and physical development
Gods’ principles for eating and dressing are followed in capable child’s home. Those principles, capable child has come to love. In the home capable child has duties, and is made useful in cooking, cleaning and gardening, all things capable child has also come to enjoy.
The home is capable child’s school. The parents lead capable child in some subjects and have enlisted me to help with capable child’s learning in Mathematics, English and the sciences. Teaching capable child has allowed me to closely observe how capable child's mind has been developing. And I can tell you that capable child would be any teachers dream student. God has given capable child a retentive mind, and mental ability. Inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning and creative thinking—all forms of thinking needed to excel in mathematics and science—have developed nicely in capable child.
Why is capable child mentally and physically strong? It is because capable child is made useful around the house, and in thinking Gods thoughts in bible study, the mind has been strengthened. Our minds grow in proportion to the ideas we contemplate. Gods’ thoughts being the highest thoughts, our minds develop the greatest in contemplation of them. And to study the bible in the way God intended trains the highest forms of thinking.
At the beginning I said, “be of God cheer, you have wisdom and help in God”. And I want to add that this help and wisdom is in his counsels. Obedience to those counsels in the home, will make the home a powerful school. This is what I hope you have seen in my telling of capable child’s experience.
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