Where are your Children?

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 

New International Version (NIV)

5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all you soul and with all you strength.

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

9 Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. 

I remember watching this commercial on TV once, it was asking the question; "where are your children?" I believe as parents we have to know where our children are but as they grow older we just seem to forget the importance where they are. My mom would ask where we where and then she would tell us what time we were expected home, but as we grew older she just did not ask anymore as long as we where home before five after school, and many moms and dads do that. We give our children the liberty to grow and become themselves.
The sad reality is that as we let them grow we let them go when they most need guidance.
The question that we as Christians should make our selves everyday is "where are your children SPIRITUALLY?" caring for our children is our number one concern as parents, but most Christians don't know where their children are Spiritually. They are happy and content just to see their kids in church. Every Sunday they go to church and sit there and play with their phones, talk to each other and text. We need to guide them, make time for them and read the Word with them. Pray with them everyday if possible, teach them always to be thankful to the Lord.
The Word says on Deuteronomy 6:7 tell our children, teach them. We teach them almost everything, from how to eat to how to talk and yet we expected them to learn all about God on their own. We help them on homework from school, we are not happy just because they sit there, we are happy when we see them learning, why don't we do the same when they go to church.
My parents were pastors and were always busy working to bring people to the Lord but they never told us that Jesus died in the cross for us, they never set down and told us He gave his life for me. They were expecting the Sunday school teacher to tell us, it is sad to say it but that is how many children learn about Jesus sacrifice and God love for us. We give the responsibility and the blessing of teaching our children about Jesus, to someone else. Lets obey the word of God and impress it on our children, talk about it when we sit at home, when we walk along the road, when we lie down and when we get up. Know where your children are Spiritually so when some ask "where are your children?" you can have the blessing of knowing that your children are saved and serving the Lord.





Bany Basto