Christian Family Services Ministry

11-27-2019 – A Word to the Wise – I have seen a great calamity in our day, parents who do not talk to their children and children who do not talk to their parents.
Parents whose lives are so full of foolishness they have nothing to share with their children, and children who think their parents have nothing to say worth listening too.
Part of this foolishness begins in childhood when the parent allows others to raise their children whether it be daycare, or self-care resulting in no communication between parent and child which in the later years becomes nursing homes, and lonely homes for the parent.
In our time it is the parent who allows friends, entertainment, television, or game screens to interact with the child because they are too busy or perhaps seeking immoral relationships or more likely because of just plain disinterest.
So how did all of this come about? Simply because we do not pay attention to a lesson taught thirty-four hundred years ago:
“The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deut. 6 (NRSV).
It is the loss of these verses so many years ago that brings ruin to us today. The command not only focuses one’s attention on the Lord and daily walking with him it also demands daily, minutely communication between the parent and child all of their days.
How may the child know the Lord in a close intimate way when the child has never experienced the parent walking with the Lord? If the child is never allowed to see the miracles that God brings about in the parents’ life, how are they to see the miracles, interventions in their own life?