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The secret to secure kids

by Adam Bennett  
3/01/2008 / Parenting

In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. (Proverbs 14:26)

All parents want their children to grow up secure. This proverb provides a simple prescription that, in the Message's paraphrase, makes the "world safe for your children."

The key is not in parenting skills, books or programs. The secret is for parents to fear the LORD. To fear the LORD, is to have a proper awe and respect for God. As we increasingly understand who God is and what he does, fear is a good description for how we experience the knowledge of how separate and different from God we are.

In CS Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Mr Beaver says to the children, who are wondering about Aslan, "Safe? Who said anything about safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."

As our faith is established, and we cease to be people who are a "wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind," (James 1:6) our children get to experience the certainty and truth that they are beloved of God and protected by the one who is sovereign over all things.

Though they do not understand it they, like us, progressively learn that God says of us, "I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetimeuntil your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you." (Isaiah 40:3-4 NLT)

Copyright Adam Bennett 2009. More articles are available at http://godward-thoughts.blogspot.com/

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