If you aren’t praying for your children, then who is? Given the pressures placed upon young people in our society today, your children need prayer! And if you aren’t praying daily for them, then it is very likely that they have no one else to plead for them before the throne of grace. But what should you be praying for your children?
Pray that they might understand the relationship between God’s reproofs and their violation of Biblical principles. The Psalmist said, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes” (Psalm 119:71).
Life is held together by a very intricate series of cause-and-effect relationships. You cannot obey God’s ways without being blessed; but you cannot ignore them or disobey them without there being consequences in your life and in your relationships with others.
The moment we are wronged or offended, God gives us grace to respond Biblically to our offender. The reason why God supplies grace and the reason why we resist it is because His principles are the very opposite of our natural inclinations (Isaiah 55:8). Jesus says, “…Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). Our natural inclination is to get even.
But whenever you resist or reject God’s grace and violate His principles there will be consequences and conflicts in your life and in your relationships with others. The writer of Hebrews warns, “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled” (Hebrews 12:15).
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Wisdom is being able to see that connection between our violation of Biblical principles and the consequences or reproofs that we are experiencing. Proverbs 4:7 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
If our children can see that connection they will then have the knowledge to resolve conflicts and have successful relationships. So pray daily that they might see life from God’s perspective and that they might understand the relationship between God’s reproofs and their own violation of Biblical principles.
Morris Hull
Home Life Ministries
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