The action word in the above topic is “charting”. To chart is a deliberate, conscious, and repetitive act to intentionally arrive at a destination well planned. Charting a family’s spiritual journey has specific goals of achieving a desired result or outcome as well. In this context, the desired result is to have children that not only learn Scriptures but experience them as well.
Important Keys to Charting a Spiritual Journey
Rejoice in the Responsibility: As a parent or one who has the parenting responsibility to raise children you need to see it as a personal responsibility. The more we see it as a personal responsibility rather than a necessary burden, the easier it becomes to get the child to learn scriptures and plot a course for their journey. The more they see you delight in the scriptures the greater desire they will have for reading God’s inspired inerrant word.
Home Environment is Important: In achieving anything reasonable in the life of a child, the right environment is necessary. The right environment connotes the right frame of mind, a calm atmosphere devoid of distractions and the right physical and emotional state of being. If any of these is not in place, our training may become an effort in futility.
Guidance of the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is the key agency for knowing God. Christ rightly declares about Him: “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” – John 14:26. There is need to seek His help and guidance in this important parental assignment entrusted to us by God. It is only by His help that we can make any reasonable progress in this regard.
The Right Motive: The motivation behind training a child to learn Scriptures is instrumental to the overall outcome of the training. Our motive should be far from having the child show off scriptural knowledge skills before friends and loved ones. It should rather be to enable the child to know and experience God in a deeper way.
Life Age and Stage Training: In training children to learn Scriptures, it is important to take into consideration their ages. For instance, the way a 3 year old is taught should be different from how a 10 year old is taught to learn Scriptures. This age consideration in training our children is important in helping the child learn at his or her level. The key here is to start early and be consistent. Keep it simple and repetitive.
4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 NIV
It is our responsibility as parents to feed our children with spiritual food just as it is our primary responsibility to feed them with physical and emotional food. Remember that we’re all going to give account to God on how well we train and instructed our children. Every spiritual investment we make on them counts for eternity just as physical investment is profitable in the long-run. May the Master find us worthy of this great assignment at last in Jesus’ Name, so that we can provide an answer when asked…Do Your Children Believe?
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