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YOUR FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT
Can you believe it? According to research by George Barna, research pollster for Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University, only six percent of Christians have a biblical world view! Well, when they did the poll 51 percent stated they had a biblical world view but when asked specific questions, only six percent proved it.For example, of the 51 percent, 49 percent believed that reincarnation is possible after they die! Some believed that all religions are equal, the Holy Spirit is not a personal being, and people can earn their way to heaven by being good.
How can this be? I guess we have to face the facts that it comes back to parents. We are responsible to pass on God’s truth to the following generation.
Isaiah 38:19: ”The father to the children shall make known thy truth.”
Deuteronomy 4:9 (NRSV): “Take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that our eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children.”
Deuteronomy 6:7: “Thou shalt teach them DILIGENTLY unto thy children . . .”
The Amplified version states: “You shall teach them diligently to your children (impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths) and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.”
That’s sounds like full time teaching. A LIFESTYLE of teaching our children. And it’s written to fathers and mothers, not the schoolteacher! Or even the Sunday schoolteacher!
Dear mothers, are you sure your children have a biblical world view? We can’t hope they have. We must know they have. And won’t happen without our daily teaching them “precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little,” and constant penetrating into their hearts and minds (Isaiah 298:10).
But it’s even more than their hearts. We must get it into their mouths. It’s a command. It’s only when they have God’s truths and His word coming out of their mouths that we really know that they have it. If they can’t speak it out, they can’t pass it on. We must be sure that they have it so strongly they will pass it on to the next generation.
God speaks to us in Isaiah 59:21 (NRSV): “”My spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your MOUTH, shall not depart out of your MOUTH, or out of the MOUTHS of your children, or out of the MOUTHS of your children’s children, says the LORD, from now on and forever.” God uses the word MOUTHS four times in this one Scripture! He wants us to get the message.
God has given us His truth on every matter in life. We must teach our children from His Word what He says about every subject. We dare not let our children be brainwashed by the humanistic (and many times diabolical) teaching of our current public school system that is now even trying to ram transgernderism into the minds of our littlest children.
Dear mothers, let’s rise and be who God has appointed us to be. He holds us responsible for passing on His truth to our children and our future generations.
You have a full-time career. Motherhood is not only feeding and clothing your children. It is getting God’s Word into every part of their lives.
Many blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
