“CELEBRATE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY”

“Sunday, March 3, 2013”  

I am finding the encouragement to celebrate the National Children’s Day in our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE, Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

Children in THAILAND
Picture / Alan Collingwood

“The parenting job never came with a manual,” I am reading there also.

I looked up The Collins Concise Dictionary and learned that a manual is a book, a book especially of instructions or information.

And there is a book of Instructions for the parenting job. Parents have duties. Children must be corrected and children must be instructed.

The manual for the parenting job is the Bible. But the Bible is also the book of instructions for the parents.

Can I close with what Martyn Lloyd – Jones said:

“A MAN WHO DOES NOT LIVE A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE HIMSELF SOON CEASES TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FACT THAT HIS OWN CHILDREN SHOULD OBEY HIM.”

When I read this morning in the Bible the question Moses asked the officers, I was no longer reluctant to write this post.

“‘Have you allowed all the women to live?'” he asked and continued, “‘They were  the ones who followed Balaam’s  advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD’S people.'” (Numbers 31:15-17)

“God created into woman a particular power to influence,” is  Eugenia Price writing in her book called WOMAN TO WOMAN in the first chapter.

She is pointing out that it says in the Bible, that in the Garden of Eden the tempter did not go to Adam, but to Eve and that Eve influenced Adam to eat. Why did Adam eat? Because Eve talked him into it!

SIN  entered the world and infected all human nature she says through a woman’s influence!

She says also that man’s influence is different to the influence of a woman. She says “Women scar hearts  and souls.”

And let us remember that a woman is writing this about women!