CHILDREN TODAY

CHILDREN TODAY

 

Dear children of God, let our children be children. Do not make them extraordinary or encourage them or allow them to behave differently. They are not robots but they are living being with heart and feelings.so teach and train them to be children and make them a powerful instrument of God to be a blessings to the world , society, house and others. The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life that one may turn away from the snare of death. A good parent leaves an inheritance of good habits and good treasures of good behaviour to his children’s children. Train up a child in the way he or she goes; even when he or she is old he or she will not depart from it. Let our children receive the parents’ words and treasure up our commandments in their hearts and let them make their ear attentive to wisdom and inclining their hearts to understanding. The Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity.

CRY ABOUT CHILDREN: - Today we live in modern living and fashionable world. Our Children are enjoying sophisticated life. So our children never care about moral values and good characters and right behaviours. If we are not take care to teach the moral and ethical values, then we have to cry. We have to spend time to be with them to teach them to learn even small things to care for their life. Learning is a process, and it never ends; it prolongs to the end of life. Tamil proverb teaches us like this, if you are not bending the child at the age of five; you cannot bend at fifties. Parents are always neglecting the child’s activities of day today life. They say that they have no time to take attention in their studies, moral life, behaviours and good habits. Parents should cultivate good habits, moral values, and right behaviours in our children.

 Once I went for house visiting in our pastorate, there a mother of young children shared about their children and their behaviours. Her daughter did not respect her parents, not even look to the face to speak words or share anything with her mother. If she scolds or condemns her wrong doings, she gets angry with her mother, saying that I will go away from our house or I will commit suicide. She said how to make her right and correct? This was a cry of that mother. Now a day in the schools also teachers are regret about their young students. Teachers cannot punish their misbehaviours and bad habits. Recently a young boy slapped her teacher with a knife and killed her. This happened in Chennai city. Elderly people are very much frustrated about the younger generations. Youngsters never respect elderly people, and they have no graceful heart to help them while traveling or any other needful situations. Cries of the parents, teachers, and elderly people ring in the ears of the homes, society, and churches. How to solve these great problems? These problems are not analysed to find out where it begins?

Children are growing with their parents in the house and learning with teachers in the schools and colleges and growing in the society and churches. While children or a child speaks irrespective words, bad words parents did not correct them at the very moment to teach them good habits and behaviours, then they will regret. Instead of that they delighted in their irrespective and bad words. That caused great break now. When the child becomes or grows big, then the child speaks the same irrespective and bad word, the parents could not delight in it because it causes break in their life.  When young children disturb their parent’s works or other house hold duties; they allowed them to watch unwanted TV programmes and browsing internet.  This permission makes them free to do things without any control. Some parents feel proud about they give freedom to their young children to grow with freeness. One day the parents will cry as they break their parental relationship and family relationship.

CRY OF CHILDREN: - Once a young boy was sentence to death for his cruel act and murder. He was sending to hang, they asked him that his last wish to see any one. He said I want to see my mother. When she came to meet him, he cried, bitterly wept and said to his mother, because of you only today I am going to hang. When I was young you encouraged my bad habits and misbehaviours. That encouraged me to do great cruel things and murder. The sentence is given as the wages for my sins, bad habits and miss- behaviours.  Freedom of bad habits, miss-behaviours, flow of money and Medias lead the young children into great tragedy.  Parents are giving more importance for their children’s education, good jobs, and well earnings. But it won’t give the children good habit and respective and right behaviours to lead a good Christian life. If the child led the good life by obeying parents, learning good habits and cultivate right behaviours. Then the bitter cry may be stopped. Good education, well earning with respected jobs will not give highly regards in the society, churches and house. But the teaching of moral values and training in the knowledge God’s words will help the child.  Not only memorize the bible verses in Sunday school and home page after page will help the children to learn good habits and well behaviours. But train the children to love the lord and to obey his commandments to lead a good and God fearing life. Let us wipe away the tears and stop the cry by feeding the spiritual milk. Let us train them like new-born infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it they may grow up into salvation.

Dear friends, let our children will be trained in a God’s way to love the lord and his words to obey and walk in it. Hear sons and daughters, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teachings. Hear my sons and daughters, and accept my words, that years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of righteousness and uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. My sons and daughters are attentive to my words; incline your ears to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the spring of life. Put away from you crooked speech and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. Dear beloved ones, kindly spend time with children, and help them and train them while they are young and while they are available in the busy world. Then you can make sure about your children’s hope and future. If you are blessed by these children today, kindly share with others and send your enquiry or any question to my email ID. revsjc@gmail.com, revsjc12@hotmail.com, johnchelliah857@yahoo.com.