Mom Heart Moments #157

Everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW just what to do to have good results with their children, yet there is no one-size-fits-all answer. There is, however, one important key: you! I believe the key to raising excellent children is for you to grow in excellence. You cannot give your children what you do not possess. Buying the best curriculum or the most expensive lessons cannot compensate for shortcomings in your own life; as the Scripture says, your children will be like their teacher. We, as teachers and models, do not need to condemn ourselves for not being perfect. Yet, even as we look for a heart of obedience in our children, a willingness to try to please us, so He is looking for that intention in us.

I have found out that I can always accomplish more than I thought with God at my side. I can always work harder than I thought I had the capacity to work. And most of all, God’s grace carries me through each weakness, failure, and sin, but He is always calling me to live beyond the place where I am, to grow more fully into the me He created me to be. If I am growing, learning, loving more, living more intentionally, He will bring excellence and growth into the very fiber of my family life. For indeed, the most important resource to my children in their life education is me, as I submit to God’s training and calling on my own life, fully committed to being like Him, my Teacher.

How can you encourage excellence of character by portraying it to your children, your husband, and yourself? How is your witness growing in goodness, beauty, and truth every day?