40 GET OUT OF YOUR CHILD’S WAY TO GOD. BE A
WINDOW TO GOD NOT JUST A MIRROR OF YOURSELF.
“I’ll never follow Christ. My pastor father abused me and I refuse to set foot inside of a church,” confided the wounded daughter of a preacher.
You can be the greatest bridge to God for your child. Or, you can become the greatest barrier to you child reaching God.
We have had parents “ground” their teens from going to a youth group because of misbehavior. How foolish that can be! Why would a parent keep a child away from God’s presence when he or she misbehaves? Just the opposite should be the case. Whenever a child is misbehaving, get that child into worship, God’s presence, and with other godly friends as much as possible!
I want to be certain that my words, attitudes, or actions don’t cause my children to stumble in their pursuit of God.
I do desire that my fiery passion for God would ignite their fire for Him.
I want my faults and sins to be confessed and removed so that I become a path to the Father for my children, not a dead end to their pursuit of God.
I desire to be a green light, not a red light in my children’s spiritual journey.
Our desire for our children needs to be such a powerful spiritual and material inheritance and legacy that they do greater works in the Kingdom of God than we ever did. I want them to have more signs and wonders follow them than I ever experienced. I desire for their service to others to far exceed anything I did or could ever have imagined.
If you are in your child’s way to God, humble yourself as Christ did. Instead of being “in the way” get out of the way so that your child is encouraged and helped to the Father by your life.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Phil. 2:5–8). Action Steps I/We Need to Take