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~ We are all children of the most High. ~
Psalm 82:6
~ Things Not to Believe ~
Do You Know Where You're Going To?
By Gerry Goffin and Mike Masser
Let babies cry. It is good for their lungs.
When crying is the only means of communication by which an infant can express that they have a need, emotional abandonment is not a response of love.
Children are to be seen and not heard.
If it annoyed God to hear from us, we would be up a creek without a paddle.
'Sparing the rod' means the child will be spoiled.
Thy rod and thy staff shall comfort thee. Spare the comfort and the child will turn to spoil.
Kids get over it.
How many childhood hurts do you remember, wherein the response was not love?
This hurts me more than it does you.
Yea, right!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Accusing or punishing a child, in advance of being tempted, eliminates motive for doing right.
If you were not guilty this time, count it for the times you were guilty but did not get caught.
Not even our law judges a person before they have had a chance to speak for themselves.
If you get into trouble at school, you will also get into trouble when you get home.
God does not punish twice for the same crime and double jeopardy is against the law, when done to adults.
It is not punishment. It is discipline.
Punishment, by any other name, is still the same.
Church? Wait until the children are grown wherein they can, then, decide for themselves.
How can anyone claim to love children and not care about their souls?
Adult ministry is more important than children's ministry.
Train up a child to love God and the church and, when he is old, he will love God and the church.
Children are the future leaders of tomorrow.
If children are not aloud to serve today, they will not be leading tomorrow.
Do not cause suffering by disallowing children to serve in the church.
Obeying teachings of men will win you favor with God.
If any lack wisdom, ask God, yourself. |
Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name have cast out devils? and
in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:22
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1
People fail us and we fail God.
But, God never fails.
~ Shadows ~
You are teaching, they are learning
Even when you're not aware;
Everything from patient answers
To the silent, vacant, stare.
You are teaching, they are learning
Habits formed by what you do.
There is not a body movement
They don't mimic after you.
This requires a little thinking,
A decision yours alone.
You must set your course and hold it,
Make the answers sure your own.
For when the child is tender,
Like the sapling of the tree,
You can bend and train the pattern
That you'd like the world to see.
We may laugh at sassy children
And the tantrums that they throw;
Might be cute when they are tiny.
When they're older, that's not so.
It can bring a lot of trouble
If it's not in their control;
We all need to have a temper
That is ours ~ to reach the goal.
But a temper that is flaring,
Unkind hands and burning eyes,
Should not be the foremost model
For the pattern we would guide.
There's instruction for the loving,
The forgiving and the brave,
In the Book we call the Bible ~
For the soul that would be saved.
It's an act of loving kindness
That will benefit us all ~
And the Lord will bless and thank us
When our little ones stand tall!
You are teaching, they are learning;
So make each move, each word, with grace,
If you'd raise your face to Jesus,
When you see Him face to face.
© 2005 by Joan Clifton Costner
Visit Joan at Heavenly Poetry and Under His Wings
This psalm may be used in its entirety, with credits
in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.
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