{"id":13201,"date":"2025-09-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:32:08","slug":"keep-my-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/keep-my-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep My Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Once again, Solomon repeats his fatherly advice to listen and practice his teachings so that life will go well for his child. Solomon wants only the best for his son, hoping his offspring will avoid some of the heartache the king experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As parents, aunts, uncles, or grandparents, we want the children in our lives to have a better life than what we perceive we had. But sometimes, in our efforts to make the next generation\u2019s life easier, we do more harm than good. Teaching children how to live independently of us, relying on God as the only sure foundation, means we must let them go and can\u2019t protect them from the challenges of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We moved six months ago into a house with a big backyard. Coming from a small house with only a back deck and a strip of grass, I had anxiety about letting the dogs run in the spacious area where I couldn\u2019t always see them. After months of slowly allowing them to run in larger and larger areas, I am finally letting them out in the big yard regularly. As a non-parent, I can only imagine the difficulties of letting your children go into the crazy world we live in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if we teach them God\u2019s word and lead by example, we don\u2019t have to let them go alone. Instead, we can give them to the Lord and trust Him to do what we can\u2019t, providing them with a firm foundation to turn to when the guaranteed hard things of life happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instill sound biblical teaching in your children\u2019s lives, and rest assured that as they grow and mature, it will grow and mature with them. Hiding God\u2019s word in our hearts gives us a reliable source of strength when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Question:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What teaching did your parents give you that has kept you out of trouble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What lesson do you want to instill in your children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can you share your faith with your children today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lord, thank You for giving us sound advice for living and helping us plant it in our hearts, keeping it the apple of our eyes. Please help us teach our children wisely and give them the firm foundation they can find only in You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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