Some parents are so controlling! They make their kids learn
so many things as they run their lives for them. I’ve seen parents make their kids eat fruits
and vegetables, instead of just putting them out with the Hershey bars, candy,
and soda. This seems overbearing surely
they can decide for themselves, if we just expose them to all the food choices
that are available.
Other parents are really hung up on academics they make
their children learn colors, letters, sounds, numbers and them expect them to agree that 2 x 2
=4. These parents just want their kids
to be boxed-in in life. Surely we can
just let them have a crayon, pen, pencil, and paper and they can decide for themselves
if they really think a system of communication with symbols, or letters is
necessary. It is not like we as parents
know everything.
There are even multiple parents I have seen that make their
children take a bath, with soap, and even wash behind their ears. This is just over the top! How dictatorial can a parent be? Any kid, given time, can find water, and
some kind of cleaner to use, if they think it is necessary and important to
themselves.
By now, most of those reading this column are really upset,
or have figured out that I am being pretty sarcastic. Yet, parents that are involved in their kids
temporal lives giving all kinds of guidance from baths, to diet, to their
education, never spend any time helping prepare them for eternity. They say, “I am going to let them
decide.” Many of them do not realize
that Jesus made this declaration, “I am
the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes unto the Father but by me.”
(Jn. 14:6, KJV) They have not kept the
command of Ephesians 6:4, to “bring them
up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” (NKJV)
Many who are great parents academically, and physically,
never put any effort into spiritually training their children. They are not only disobedient to the
Scriptures but send their children off to “decide” on their own without giving
them any direction. A parent who would
never want any physical harm come to their child sends that same child off into
a Christ-less eternity to suffer damnation forever!
The following six weeks on Sunday Mornings at 10:30 we will
be studying the topic, “Dealing with
Dysfunction”. Principles will be
covered that will help bring Biblical answers to everyday problems that parents
face but seldom use, to “bring their children up in the training and admonition
of the Lord.”
(This article was published in the pastor's column of the Rushville Times.)
