Parents Are Like Jesus

In thinking about Jesus, one cannot help but think of a loving parent and gracious teacher. With that said, I now invite you into my HEART...

Beloved, parents are like Jesus, in that they are teachers leading children. The parent(s) has the most important role there is in life, just as the family is the most important thing in life. 

Many of us are sadly children of broken homes. Parents who did not make the right choices and left the children uprooted. Though many reasons arise for divorce, the single underlining truth is that Jesus wasn’t the CENTER of their marriage and their parenting. 

I can speak of this with confidence as I was once married and parenthood stared me right in the face as if but for a fleeting moment, and both were ripped away from me. Of course of my own doing; my decision to not have Jesus at our CENTER.

Children who are in Christ and understand what it is to accept Jesus into their heart and lives as their Lord and personal Savior, is a most wonderful treasure, and they are already given a measure of faith to speak lovingly to their parents and say if this is the case, “Mom/Dad, that isn’t what Jesus says. You need to do it like Him.”

Parents you have the greatest honor and privilege there is on the face of this planet as well as in heaven— to be a parent; guardian and teacher over your children for a time. Don’t waste their years with teaching them things that you yourself wouldn’t want them to do to you.

JESUS SPEAKS

“Do unto others as you would like done unto you. ”

• If you as a parent curse, stop and ask yourself, “Do I want my child to curse, and if they did how would that make me feel and react?” 

• If you as a parent drinks alcohol and get drunk, stop and ask yourself, “Do I want my child to drink alcohol and get drunk, and how would that make me feel and react?”

• If you as a parent have been arrested for whatever reason, stop and ask yourself, “Would I want my child to get arrested, and how would I feel and react?”

• If you as a parent have done or are doing illegal drugs or abusing prescription drugs, stop and ask yourself, “Would I want my child to do this and how would that make me feel and react?”

• If you as a parent, are having sex out of marriage or bringing around many “suitors” as it were, and your children see this or even if you keep it a secret hidden from them and others, ask yourself this, “Would you want your child to do the same, and if they did how would you feel and react?”

The way your children feel and react is the same way you would feel and react. Stop and think first. 

Parents, do you lose your temper, get into verbal or physical fights? Do you honor your own parents? How do you speak to your own parents being a parent yourself? Do you gossip and speak negatively about others? Do you show a desire to get back at someone for doing you wrong? Do you honor your children or just buy things for them and take them places when you mess up? Do you say you don’t have time for church? Do you ever read the bible and apply what you read into your life? Do you ever read the bible and pray for others? If you call yourself a Christian, do you show your children what it is as Jesus so wonderfully said it, to “treat others as you would like to be treated.”

Know that your children soak it all in, and if you are doing it, then you are saying, it is equally okay for them to do it.

I am a child of parents who have failed at every single thing above, and guess what?! I did all the things above just as they did. They did and taught me such things, so I emanated what I saw and was taught...Food for thought.