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If you want to grow 💃 🕺 💃 🕺 💃 🕺
Do we just sit and wish our children will grow spiritually as they grow physically
Even physical growth isn’t automatic.
Your children’s diet and other essential things contribute to the wellness of their physical being – and so it is with their spiritual development.
Why do we think the food they eat few hours once a week will make them look like giants?
Why do we think they can only be served by one source (the Sunday school teacher)?
Why do we think the food is only meant for them because we are busy sorting out how to grow them in other areas?
Your children’s spiritual growth requires a constant diet
Served at home, served in school, served in church and served everywhere
It must be served in a very interesting way, else they will reject the meal
They don’t need to be hungry before they are offered
And with this meal, overeating doesn’t lead to ‘obesity’. However, if a child is starved of this spiritual meal, being malnourished sometimes isn’t obviously seen as the case of physical growth – and when it becomes obvious it can lead to instant death.
So how can I keep my children to be spiritually healthy?
1. I must be spiritually healthy.
Parents!!! We cannot give what we don’t have. It starts with me. You will always serve the children junk because that is what you have and that is the best you know. No parent will intentionally give their children what will harm them. So if you are not spiritually fit, then you cannot spiritually serve your children ‘spiritual menus’ that will make them spiritually healthy.
2. I must be part of the meal plan.
As parents, I will not just assume my children will serve themselves because I bought them Bible and devotionals. I will not just assume their teachers (Sunday School and Classroom) will do justice to teaching. I will not just assume that playing Christian cartoons like ‘Super Book’ is enough. I must be fully involved, everytime, every day and everywhere.
3. I must have a spiritual growth goal.
Just like we have fitness goals, we must pen down a spiritual growth plan/goal for our children and this must be age-specific and related to the capacity of the child just like we watch our BMI
4. I must make sure the food is served everywhere.
I cannot be dishing out healthy food only at home and then, the children are permitted eat anything anywhere else! This will ruin my intention. Therefore, I must be intentional about the kind of school I take my children, what they do in children’s church, the kind of parties (especially birthdays) I take them too and the kind of content they are exposed to on the screen.
5. I must be intentional, deliberate and consistent about their spiritual growth. As simple as this sounds, it takes effort to achieve in our world that is full of distractions.
In conclusion, Pastor M will always say that Godly seed (spiritual healthy child) is not the same as morally sound seed. The difference is clear – the God factor makes the difference.
