Mom Heart Moments #294

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.

WE LIVE IN A TIME IN HISTORY when culture tries to convince us that we can do it all. However, each of us only has one life to invest in what matters. Each of us is limited in the amount of time we can use to invest in the priorities of our lives. We have to choose what we will focus on, and our choices will have lasting consequences.

Pouring into the souls of our children, developing sharp minds, protecting them from the draw of culture, passing on faith —these do not come about by chance. God will hold us responsible for the ways we use our lives to cultivate the spiritual lives of our children.

I do not think there is one formula in regard to accomplishing these things, and all of us have different pressures, issues, and puzzles to figure out in regard to motherhood. But we cannot foster a divided heart and be able to truly pass on a legacy of righteousness. Our hearts must be devoted to the stewardship of the young lives that have been entrusted into our hands. We cannot serve the world and God’s purposes.

He allows us free rein, the ability to ignore and go against biblical logic and wisdom, but we will usually be left to live with the consequences of unwise choices.

After all these years of mothering my own children and observing many families, I know that if children do not find stability, love, training, spiritual reality, purpose, and comfort in their own homes, they will look for them wherever they can find them. They will become like the places where they spend the most time and like the people they spend the most time with, because they are shaped by the culture in which they invest their hearts.

Is your heart divided? How can you make your home a haven for your children?