what are you breathing into your kids?
September 10, 2009 at 9:18 am Leave a comment
A question I have to stop to ask myself often: “What am I breathing into the life of my daughter?”
I think a lot of parents (myself included) don’t really think that we are constantly breathing into the lives of our children…CONSTANTLY! If this is the case (and it is…I don’t care if you are with your kids 24/7 or only see them every other weekend) we need to know what we are breathing into their lives.
This one hurts sometimes…because we’re breathing either life or death. There’s no inbetween.
Ways to breathe life into our children: Scripture…memorize it with your kids, read it together, use it for correction and discipline, stay in it, live it (Psalm 119:105). Prayer…for your children (everyday), with your children (everyday) (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Encouragement…use words to encourage your children every day, encourage your spouse (Ephesians 4:29). Time…eat meals together, play together, make sure your kids know they are more important to you than work, chores, other people, television, sports…(Psalm 127:3). These are just a few that I try to focus on (and I know it’s not easy all the time). What other ways do you breathe life into your children? (please share in the comments)
Conversely there are ways to breathe death into our children (remember, there is no inbetween…if its not life, its death). Ways we do this include living our lives daily apart from scripture and apart from a daily walk with Jesus, using harsh words, communicating that other things (like television, work, etc.) are more important than our children (and we DO communicate this with our actions), not disciplining and correcting our children, thinking the best thing we can do for our kids is buy them more stuff, and not being active and involved with the ministry of a church. I’m sure there are others as well.
So, are you breathing life or death into your kids today?
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