77 TEACH YOUR CHILD TO CHOOSE BLESSING EACH
DAY RATHER THAN CURSE.

This seems like a “no brainer,” but it’s important to understand that your child has a choice, just as you do.

Every day, your child is faced with choices that will determine whether or not they will walk in God’s blessing or not. Remember, if you aren’t in His blessing, then you’re cursed.

This may sound harsh, but it’s true. Your child must learn early on to choose the blessing of God by serving only Him. The blessing comes as they keep His commands and worship only Him. The curse comes by disobedience and worship of self or another god.

What commands must we keep? Jesus said it very clearly in Matthew 22 that the commandment is to love. First, love God, then love your neighbor as yourself.

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matt. 22:36–40 NKJV).

As we sow love and compassion into our children, they will be equipped to love God and love themselves and their neighbors. By so doing, they will choose blessing and not curse.

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known (Deut 11:26–28 NKJV).

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