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Motivating Ideas on How Parents Are Accountable to God Almighty in Effective Parenting of Children in Their Formative Years.

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We, as parents, are accountable to God the creator as the LORD. He created man and gave him the responsibility to procreate and nurture their offspring to follow his way; the way of holiness and right living on earth. Failure to achieve this goal places man in judgment before the Lord his maker. 

The importance God attaches to proper parenting cannot be over stressed at any point in time in all generations of human existence. The failure of man in this respect is the reason for all the behavioral problems rampant in the contemporary world. Man is already suffering the consequences of this blatant failure and will suffer the more in the life to come at the judgment day. God delights in parents who take responsibility to train their children to be useful citizens. This is evident in the confidence he expressed in Abraham the Patriach when he declared that Abraham would actually train his children to fear him. In the same way he is not pleased with parents who do not care to train their children to be responsible members of society. 

Can God trust you to be a godly parent? Are you aware that your failure will place you squarely before God in judgment? Are you going to do your part to ensure that your children are useful members of society? Or do you think you can stand the wrath of God in judgment? 

You have a solemn choice to make – either to depend on God and apply these wise ideas to ensure that your children are properly brought up or neglect these ideas and give excuses, and thereby wait fearfully for the judgment you must face as a result of your negligence. 

This writer implores you to be wise and make the right choice! God is watching. His blessings are waiting as well as his judgment depending on your choice of course of action. You cannot afford to fail God, humanity and yourself!

“It is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” This statement by no less a personality than apostle Paul to Christians in Corinth (Second Corinthians chapter four, verse two) underscores the importance of the solemn responsibility of parents as stewards of God for their children. Faithfulness hence is not an option and no parents have any reasonable excuse to give as we find rampant today which will suffice before God the Supreme Master.

From the outset God gave parents unlimited dominion over creation. This dominion must first be exerted in the home, the primary location of the man. The same apostle Paul cautioned Christians elsewhere that no man should be given a leadership position in the church, the spiritual body of Christ, unless he has good control of their family members, especially their children. It is required of parents to prepare themselves prior to getting married with information based on knowledge as contained in family life education books and teachings that come from experienced marriage and family life counsellors.

It is noteworthy that our immediate society, like others before ours, have been infested with ignorance arising from foolish pride, presumption or outright willfulness that impedes progress. God has always extended his mercy to all generations and societies by calling persons from time to time to become ambassadors of his kingdom by proclaiming and teaching ideas that influence people for godliness. We are duty bound to seek out these resource persons and learn simple yet crucial principles of proper child upbringing from them and their works.

We have posited in a previous place in this book that parents have ultimate responsibility for the proper upbringing of their offspring. It is not the society, not teachers and not even pastors or other spiritual leaders that shoulder the responsibility. While all these others may have limited influence on a child, unless the child is started off well in the home, his most influential location and environment, chances are that the child may be deformed. This is why humans have come up with the finding that east or west, north or south, home is best. There is no disputing of this interesting finding.

Why must Parents strive to start off their children on the way they should go? The ultimate reason then is that they are accountable to God and man for the kind of children they bequeath to their respective societies. Yes, the peace and security of the society reflects the kind of children it inherits from parents populating it. While this book addresses the issue of proper parenting of children in their Formative years, would-be parents, members of societies, teachers, spiritual leaders and young people have this privilege of getting the right, tested and working information, that would enable them prepare well and influence children positively anywhere, anytime. They do well to give good account of themselves to their immediate societies and to God the benevolent creator. 

There is no acceptable reason to shy away from this solemn responsibility.

Says the apostle Peter to his audience, “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” (Second Peter chapter one, verses three and four). This closes every controversy. This informs why we will not have any tangible excuse on the day when we appear before God to give account of our stewardship to him.

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