Many children are being left to raise themselves because parent are making other issues more important than spending quality time teaching principles that will make the children’s lives more purposeful, meaningful, balanced, peaceful, and joyful, as they grow into adulthood.
A lot of parents are giving children the impression that:
1) It is important to have every material thing and career position you want and to be willing to pay any cost to get it.
2) Keeping up with the Joneses is the priority of life.
3) Being in debt is a great way to live and obtain all the comforts of life.
4) You should work as many hours as seems humanly possible to make as much money and gain as much notoriety as you can even if when it means spending little time with the family (in essence destroying the marriage and the family unit).
Most parents are not teaching biblical money management principles that will help their children be content, self-controlled, service-focused, and prosperous in life nor are they directing them to sources that could help them learn these valuable virtues and the methods that can help employ them.
Leading children to Jesus Christ should be the first priority of every parent and guardian. They should also be led to pursue God’s will for their lives and incomes and any money and resources that come into their hands.
This will not happen when the parent or guardian is not focused on pursuing God’s will in his or her own life. Children usually absorb what they see in parents and guardians more than they absorb what parents and guardians say and usually to a greater degree.
When the children see a continually ungodly (bad) example, many times they develop a greater addiction to it and bring greater destruction into their lives than the parents experienced. When they hear and see what is good (a godly example), most times the children will have a much greater influence that keeps them in the Light that enables them to achieve greater levels of prosperity on earth than the parents achieved.
You will probably not teach the correct principles and lessons of life if you don’t follow them yourself. Is your child’s future important enough to make sure he / she inherits eternal life and has the tools to live prosperously on earth using money management principles that please God?
Thank God there is hope even when parents have not taught or exampled the right lifestyle and money management principles and methods because the Holy Spirit never stops reaching out to people, including children, with the truth of eternity and of living in purpose and meaning here on earth. You simply do not want to be used as a tool of satan that serves as a stumbling block whose attitudes and actions lead your children, teens, young adults, and those you influence away from the Truth, biblical principles, faith in action, and good stewardship that lead to eternal and earthly prosperity.
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Deuteronomy 6:5-7, Proverbs 22:6-7, Luke 2:39-52, Ephesians 6:1-4, 1Timothy 3:4-5
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