God gives parents sway. Children feel a compulsion to please their parents. They want to make their mom and dad proud of them. This hard-wired herald of grace is a call for parents to step up. Parents will influence their children. It is not a question of if, but of how? How will the parents influence their child? Their presence or absence will be felt. Their words or silence will speak volumes. Their time given or withheld will carry weight. God has given children to parents and parents to children. When they are in Christ, they are grace upon grace from God to each other, but when they aren't a child can become a shame to his parents and parents can be bitter memories to their children.
A Christian parent has had their disciples handmade for them by the hand of God. A child has had their missionaries assigned to them by the Author of all ambassadors. God's plan is for Christian children to be homemade.
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
May God turn the hearts of fathers to their children and children to their fathers so that parent and child both may have their hearts and minds turned toward their Father in Heaven.
Malachi 4:6
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.
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