Good morning everyone!

Ever since our movie “episode” on Saturday (click here if you missed that post), I have been shaken out of my slumber.

When our daughter was younger, she would do anything Mommy would do.  If I raised my hands in worship, she would do the same.  She loved dancing around the house with me (still does).  Even in the vehicle traveling to preschool, she would have her little hands raised to the Lord.  Now she is SIX years old and has decided that she is “shy” (which I rebuke each time she says it).  Now in church, she is more concerned about others around her.  I don’t know where she gets that from.  Maybe it is something kids go through.

I tie all of this into last Saturday because the devil does all he can to plant images/thoughts in the minds of our children.  Before I knew it, the children with me had already seen some disgusting demonic things.  What am I doing to counteract these things?

Since our princess was a young child, I have read Bible stories to her — but now, at this age — it is time to step it up a notch.   Last night I read to her from my Bible.   Since she is memorizing John 3:16 this week, we started reading there.

I want to fill her with God’s Word.  I know she is still young, but I suddenly feel like I am almost behind somehow.

Proverbs 22:6
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

I didn’t have any biblical foundation as a child or youth — no Bible stories, no church, nothing at all.   It was after my world began to crumble around me at the age of 18 that I had to dig in God’s Word for survival.   It was then as a young adult that I began to build a foundation centered on God’s Word — brick by brick.

I want my baby girl to have that foundation.  It isn’t going to come by memorizing scriptures at school, or knowing the stories of the Bible.  It is going to come by knowing what God’s Word says about every situation, THEN using His Word as her sword.  It isn’t about head knowledge, but having God’s Word sink deep into her heart.

There are so many who just float through life without understanding.  I DO NOT want that for my child.  I almost feel an urgency in all of this.

Am I alone out here? 

Do other parents have the same concerns?  I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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