Recently I was helping some teenagers who were struggling with a difficult home life. I wanted to share with them a verse that helped me when I was growing up to draw strength from my heavenly Father. When I looked up the verse, I happened to see the following verse which I had never considered before. Here are the verses:
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies." (Psalms 27:10-11)
My mother and father had never forsaken me, of course, but as a teen I often felt as if they were against me. I took comfort in knowing that God was always there for me. But what hit me recently upon reading those two verses together was that the Psalmist says to 'Teach me your way.' In order to live in this life we must know His way. In order to deal with our enemies we must know His way.
Dear reader and mother, we must learn the way of the Lord to be able to instill it in our children's lives. Our children need to learn and we are their best teacher. We need to teach by example, by our words and our deeds. In this case, more is caught than taught. What we envision our children being when they are grown, we need to be for an example. Read the Word daily and live it daily.
Simply a Christian. "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ." (1 Corinthians 11:1) "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing." (1 Thessalonians 5:11)