Godly Parenting

GREETINGS,
 
A STORY IS TOLD THAT A MAN ONCE SAID HE WOULD NOT TALK TO HIS SON ABOUT RELIGION; THE BOY SHOULD MAKE HIS OWN CHOICE WHEN HE GREW UP, UNPREJUDICED BY HIM.  THE BOY BROKE HIS ARM, AND WHEN THE DOCTOR WAS SETTING IT, THE BOY CURSED AND SWORE THE WHOLE TIME.  "OH, OK," THE DOCTOR SAID TO THE FATHER, "YOU WERE AFRAID TO PREJUDICE THE BOY IN THE RIGHT WAY; BUT THE DEVIL HAD NO SUCH FEAR.  HE HAS LED YOUR SON THE OTHER WAY."  THE IDEA THAT A FATHER IS TO LET HIS CHILDREN RUN WILD!  NATURE ALONE NEVER BRINGS FORTH ANYTHING BUT WEEDS.  AS BAD AS CURSING AND SWEARING ARE, THE BAD WEEDS THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT FORTH TODAY IN OUR YOUTH ARE MOST OF THE TIME MUCH WORSE! 
 
ON OUR LITTLE PIECE OF LAND, BEV TAKES CARE OF A FLOWER GARDEN IN THE BACK YARD, I HAVE TWO LITTLE VEGETABLE GARDEN PLOTS AND J. D. HAS ONE.  CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THESE WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WE ALL SAID, "LET'S JUST LET NATURE TAKE IT'S COURSE." 
 
THE BEST TIME TO SOW THE GOOD SEED IS BEFORE SATAN HAS SCATTERED THE TARES. 
 
"SEEK YOU FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS"
"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO " 
"PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO WRATH; BUT BRING THEM UP IN THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD"
 
YOUTH IS A SEED TIME; AND IF IT IS ALLOWED TO PASS WITHOUT GOOD SEED BEING SOWED, WEEDS WILL SPRING UP AND CHOKE THE SOIL.  IT WILL TAKE BITTER TOIL TO UPROOT THEM.  HOWEVER, THAT WELL TENDED CHILD'S LIFE, JUST LIKE A WELL TENDED GARDEN, WILL BE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL.
 

        "THEM IN THY CHAMBERS HIDE!
         OH, HIDE THEM AND PRESERVE THEM CALM AND SAFE,
         WHEN SIN ABOUNDS AND ERROR FLOWS ABROAD,
         AND SATAN TEMPTS, AND HUMAN PASSIONS CHAFE.
 
         OH, KEEP THEM UNDEFILED!
         UNSPOTTED FROM A TEMPTING WORLD OF SIN;
         THAT, CLOTHED IN WHITE, THROUGH THE BRIGHT CITY GATES,
         THEY MAY, WITH US, IN TRIUMPH ENTER IN."

 
GOD BLESS ALL TODAY, AND REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED!!!

Henry