Saturday, January 30, 2010

Do it in Love!

My sister-in-law is keeping me accountable. She emailed me in love saying...where are the daily posts!!!

First lesson learned post:

My son is amazing. He is 11 years old and loves the Lord. Not only does he love the Lord, he understands and believes what He says in the Bible. I also need to mention that he is very confident in his faith. I say this because he has many conversations with his friends and non-friends at school during lunch hour.

They are studying evolution in his science class and Logan balks at the whole theory. This causes some intense discussions and debates. Logan is very verbal and replays each discussion thoroughly with us when he gets home from school. I have to say the kid knows his stuff, but the delivery is somewhat aggressive.

We asked him if it was more important for him to win the debate or for his friends to come to know the Truth in Christ? If we win for the sake of winning we glorify ourselves. But on the otherhand, if we tell the Truth in love we glorify God. It was a lesson in love, not creation vs. evolution.

We see God working in our son and he is starting to show his God-given gifts. It is our job as parents to teach him how to use his gifts to glorify God. Pride is something we all struggle with and it is no different for an eleven year old. We told him to keep talking to his friends at school but do it in love. God willing the hearts of his friends will change but for us we are excited to see how God will change Logan.

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:16

God is Good!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Hello Again

It has been awhile since I have written and I am finally glad to be back at it. Life has given our family a bit of a twist. We have been emotionally involved with our dear friend and the absolute destruction of her family from sexual abuse. It is still a bad situation but we continue to see the Lord protecting them.

It just made me realize a few things about how I viewed myself as a Christian parent. I suppose it is back to that underlining question of what is my purpose. I always thought as long as I stayed home with my kids, monitored their friends, coached their teams, kept them under constant surveillance etc.... they would live safe and happy lives. How naive. How totally wrong I was to think I had any control.

I finally realized how little I truly pray for my kids. I guess I feel I don't need any help......Wow! I need to remember that the God of the Universe loves my children and has an amazing plan for them. I need to be in the Word more with them and make sure they know Truth. I also need to give them time to be in the Word and prayer on their own. Everyday should be an opportunity to learn more about our God. To really get to know Him.

It is time to keep me accountable. I am going to attempt to Blog our daily God lessons. I am so excited to let God lead each lesson and allow God to reveal Himself to us as a family. Our kids go to a public school so I know a teaching moment will be available at least everyday around 3:00.

God is in control....can I get an "Amen!"