3 Ways You Can Watch Over Your Kids in Today’s World
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon
When Corrie Ten Boom was a little girl, she heard her aunt mention the word sex. She also heard the word sin but didn’t know what the phrase meant.
One day she and her father went to pick up some watch parts, and on the way home, she asked, “Papa, what is sex sin?”
He motioned to the big suitcase filled with watch parts. “I want you to pick that up.”
“It’s too heavy for me,” she said. “I can’t pick it up.”
“That’s because it’s my job to pick it up,” he replied. “This thing you want to know right now? It is too weighty for you. Let your papa carry it for you for a while, but when you’re ready and it’s time for you to pick it up, I’ll talk about it then.”
As parents, we are called to carry the heavy things for our children. One way we protect them from the world’s influence is by filtering out the thoughts and ideas that our kids aren’t big enough to carry yet.
Today’s world is filled with lying influences that are too weighty for small arms and hands. The enemy is very intentional about going after our children, and we also need to be intentional.
Here are three ways parents can protect their children from darkness.
1. Pay attention to what your children are feeding on.
If we let it, technology will step in and try to fill our kids.
Technology isn’t evil in and of itself, but the enemy has managed to sneak a number of foul, wicked concepts into children’s games and programs. We need to watch what our kids are watching and play what our kids are playing, so we know exactly what their young hearts are taking in.
Obviously, we can’t protect our children forever. We don’t want to isolate them—but we can insulate them until they are old enough and mature enough to handle certain concepts.
2. Set up times of free play, and arrange for imaginative adventures.
Kids need to be able to have real experiences, not just electronic ones.
They grow as they run around in their imagination and have fun playing pretend. Free play is always important.
3. Expose your kids to the important things in life.
When we surround our children with things that actually matter—worship, Bible stories, the good in life, what God is doing, testimonies of His voice and how He heals people—we are setting them up for deeper hunger for God.
The Lord has wisdom for us as parents, and we can trust Him to guide us. When the world tries to fight us for our kids, our simple goal is to watch over our kids in whatever way the Father leads us.
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These days, the Lord is giving specific instructions to His kids. Do you know how He’s leading you? Are you willing to trust Him…even if obeying Him means standing up when the people around you want you to sit down?
We don’t have to “put up” with any thought that doesn’t sound like Jesus. In a childlike way, we can say, “Thought, go to Jesus. You have to do what He says.”
Scary situations are just opportunities to learn who God is and how we get to walk with Him as His kids.