Christian Perspective of Mother’s
Role in the Home 620
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Christian
Mom’s at Home
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God, the Lord is
one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with
all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your
hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk with them when you sit at home and
when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them
as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the
doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”
Deuteronomy 6: 4-8
As Mom’s we have an awesome
responsibility to instill our children with God’s love and teach His Word. God
commands us to impress His Words upon their hearts, when we sit down to talk,
when we walk, before going to bed and in the morning. This isn’t too difficult
a task when our children are younger, but what if they are middle school and
high school? Sometimes it’s hard enough to get them to look up from their smart
phone and acknowledge your presence let alone talk. How do we break through in
this new “season” of parenting?
Prayer, Persistence, Purpose.
Cover your children in prayer. Have friends you can call on for a
prayer chain. Let God help you impress His Word upon their hearts. He didn’t
say you had to do it all by yourself!
Be persistent in talking with your children about God. They are at
a crossroads in their lives. The decisions they make now can affect them the
rest of their lives. They need God’s Word more than ever. Memorizing scripture
can be very helpful when they are faced with temptations and character choices.
It’s amazing what words God will
bring to mind when they need that prompting to make the right choice. We want
them to know the Truth and be fully equipped to make wise decisions throughout
life.
You have a purpose. God has given you a set of plans to develop
your children’s character and a love for Him. As a Mom, you set a shining
example of a child of God for your children. They watch carefully every move
you make, your choices. Everyone is given freedom by God to make choices about
how they will use their will. We can’t control their every move or even the
direction of their hidden thoughts, nor would we want to.
Be sure you have God’s Word
impressed upon your heart also. You don’t have to be perfect, just truthful and
open. You are the beacon that guides your children home, teach them to find
comfort there and in God’s amazing word.
“Pay attention and
listen to the sayings of the wise, apply your heart to what I teach, for it is
pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have them ready on your lips.”
Proverbs 22:17, 18
“She is clothed with
strength and dignity;
She can laugh at the
days to come.
She speaks with
wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the
affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise
and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.
Proverbs 31:25-28
As
a woman and Mom, we are created to have a positive impact on people around us –
husbands, children, parents, friends, the stranger in the checkout line…being a
wise, strong, dignified woman of God blesses others as well as your family.
“Charm is deceptive,
and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
Proverbs 31:30
