Don’t Best Your Child; Bless Your Child

Mommies and Daddies across our nation are struggling with the question of what is best for their children. The neighborhood school has become a place of uncertainty, at best, and child destruction, at worst. Believe me, I am grateful and relieved that my children were schooled at a time when knowledge (not indoctrination) was the schools to impart, and doctrine was the parents and God’s church to Biblically bestow. However, I’m by no means escaping the evils of today. I have precious grandchildren. Thus, my heart and soul deeply implore God to guide, guard and lead me and my grown children to protect and produce His will, way and purpose in each of the precious hearts and souls He entrusts our family.

There is no simple one-chapter solution for this task. However, I firmly believe the Books of the Bible are the textbook composing the framework for the “soul”ution, and one compound sentence can build the upright walls of Godly children. The Bible is familiar to us all. My compound sentence is of my personal origin, and I wish to introduce it to you — Don’t best your child; bless your child. Let’s think about this.

Focus, more often than not, is on giving our children the best. However, in today’s world, the best is almost impossible to decipher. Maybe instead, we should be seeking to, first and foremost, bless our children. Our children don’t need the world’s best, but rather, that which allows God to bless them.

It is solely confusing as to what path in present day schools will deliver our children to the doors of educational knowledge. However, it is “soul”y clear that the course of God’s teachings will transport our children to the window of Biblical wisdom. The critical decision becomes if our burning concern for our children is for their educational knowledge or Biblical wisdom. Are we encouraging our children to climb to the stars of the universe or journey to God’s heaven?

Parents (and grandparents) most fear the decision of where to educate their children when the Bible, in its acronym, (“B”asic “I”nstruction “B”efore “L”eaving “E”arth) is not the primary, and pivotal, textbook followed. Simply stated, what avenue best educates our children is secondary to what road will lead to God blessing our children.

When crossroads arrive as to what direction we should choose for our children, the teaching of Christ is the compass that should navigate our course. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” Matthew 16:26 (ESV). May all our decisions for our children be in answer to this question; for then and only then, will we have chosen not to best our children but to bless our children.