“Prepare your child for life with………..KIDS WORLD.” says the advertisement in “The Aucklander 9 December 2010 on page 11”.

It’s all about “Early Care and Learning”.

Another flyer I have here before me is called “Wriggle and Rhyme”. Free Wriggle and Rhyme sessions are held at libraries.  The ad says: “Active Movement provides positive movement experiences for children under 5 to stimulate the development of the brain and body, building the foundation for pre-literacy and learning”.

Preparing the  children for life is the desire of parents.

What is now the best way to prepare our children for life?

My mother prepared me for life: The BIBLE was in our home! She prayed for me!

Read Joel 1:3-4

Exodus 20:3

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

“Writers need to try to change the minds of readers, or make readers start to think about a subject in a much more intense way than they perhaps did before.” – Lee Gutkind

“Pagani” (Women’s Fashion) says to every lady: “Join our VIP. You are a Very Important Person to us. See inside for details.”

I am in the possession of a McDonald’s VIP Card 2011. I get things cheaper with this card. For example: I receive a free Standard Coffee with any Standard Muffin purchased.

At the end of  the day, at the end of your life, it does not really matter if Pagani or McDonald says to you: “You are a very important person to us.”  But what really matters is what the Eternal says to to you.

I rejoice that God says to me: You are very important to me. How do I know that the Lord Jesus Christ says that to me?

Listen to what I read in His Word, the Bible! I have blessed you. I have chosen you. I have predestinated you. I have made you accepted. I have abounded towards you in all wisdom and prudence. I have made known unto you the mystery of my will.

You find all this in the New Testament in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.

And at the beginning of Psalm 139 in the Bible it says:

I know when you sit down. I know when you get up. I know all your thoughts from afar. And there is more! Read it in Psalm 139!

I feel very important in my relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ! I feel very special!

“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” – EDWARD B. BUTLER

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“Honouring God

Expressing his love

Making followers of Jesus”

“The first responsibility of  a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”- Max DePree