God is the best parent. He designed some very simple rules to follow that yield some powerful results. My favorite are his top ten. Do you know them? Can you say them backwards? I can. That is how I learned them.....as an adult. No one forced me to learn them as a child well because Jesus did away with the law. Right? So we do not need it. Right? Hold on cowboy, let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. Granted I do not need to accomplish a perfect life in order to enter heaven I do want to follow the rules to be pleasing to God and to honour Him. When our Lord was asked about the commandments He said loving God was the most important thing. Do you know why? If you love God you will naturally do the rest. Boy that would be nice.
I am always cleaning out my spiritual closet, always trying to improve, always attempting to do it right. I know it is the saving grace paid on the cross by Yeshua the Messiah that makes me perfect but I want to be better for Him. I want that for my kids too. Did you know all of the offences they break in the house can be dealt with using the 10 commandments. Maybe that is why they were in every school years ago. They were not just good moral code to memorize. They were the rules to live by. The boundaries set in place by God himself because he knew that we were incapable of loving Him enough and He knew that we did not love one another.
What are those ten?
10. Do not covet
9. Do not Lie about another
8. Do not steal
7. Do not commit adultery
6. Do not murder
5. Honour your father and mother
4. Keep YHWH's sabbath
3. Do not take the name of YHWH in vain
2. Do not make or worship idols
1. YHWH is One and the only God
As you can see they are great tools to parent a child. Using them as a parent I can see that each commandment correlates to a problem children have. This is a little of what I add in the explanation to train my children.
10. Do not think of taking your siblings stuff. It leads to all kinds of heartache.
9. Do not lie about someone else because they do not deserve your punishment for your gain.
8. Whatever your sibling has you can not take.
7. Do not even begin to develop lustful thoughts about anything because it will lead to divorce. If you fornicate you are sinning against your future wife and the person you are with and if you look lustfully at the TV magazines etc. you may fall prey to adultery in your head as an adult and you need to control that appetite always.
6. Do not hate your siblings or friends or anyone for it leads to murder.
5. If you can not honour your parents you will not develop an understanding of how to honour God.
4. The 7TH day from sun down to sun down you are to take a break and rest. Do not buy. Do not sell. Rest and remember God made the heavens and the earth so YOU do not forget because God loved you. He made you. Do not for get it.
3. YHWH is Gods name. Erasing it and replacing it with another term or using it to swear by all is wrong. Any name you use to refer to Him is holy because He accepts you and loves you and you should not use that term in any negative way.
2. There are many things that can become idols. We can make them or we can just worship them. We can even set ourselves up as our own idol when we put our self first.
1. YHWH is one. He is a being with many facets but He is a beautiful mystery that is to be above all other things including ourselves in our lives. We are to love Him with everything that we are and nothing less.
It is tough training kids in this manner. Other people have let me know just how wrong I am. They have called me names and hated me for it. It is not the most easy path when parenting but it yields great results. The most wonderful thing about using Gods rules is the realization that He knew we were not perfect and prepared these rules from the beginning and wrote them out with His own finger on stone tablets for Moses. Now that is truly cool. Oh I always include that part when parenting too. This was so important that God took His finger and wrote them down perminately just for us. Cool!
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