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| May my hands guide, so their feet will choose right |
One of the saddest things that I see is when a child seems to faithfully serve God while they are young but when they are older and their parents die or they move away they stop. In young Joash's life, the person he was trying to please was the high priest Jehoiada. It seems Jehoiada used his influence to ensure that the temple was repaired and that people didn't serve other gods. The mistake Jehoiada made was that he didn't use his influence to truly impart a personal faith in Joash.
I do want my daughters to live for Christ when they are at home, but it is my greatest fear that they won't seek God after my influence has gone. It's a scary thing for a parent to allow a child to find their faith and not give all the answers or dismiss their questions by force of personality. The truth is that some who parents fear will never serve God return to Him and some who start off good drift away. What doesn't change is that parents and leaders need to develop a personal faith inside of those we influence and not an imposed one.
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