Family Life radio program is doing a week of programs on “After the Kids Grow Up.” The first day’s topic is “Releasing your child to adulthood.”
Dennis Rainey, the host, says, “Know what adulthood is. You’re raising your children to become independently dependent upon Jesus Christ. If we’re not passing on a faith to our children where they learn to dependent upon Him for the issues of life that they’re going to face, then they’re going to miss life. If you miss life spiritually, you may end up gaining material success, but you know what? If you miss Jesus Christ, then you’ve missed life, and you have to train your children, I think, to know how to relate to him on their own when you’re not watching.”
This expresses my thoughts exactly. I don’t know if I’ve done that with my children. I do not doubt they will be successful in the world, but do they have a REAL LIFE?
I pray that God will continue to be the perfect Parent to me and to my children, and raise us up to be mature in Christ.