Family

This week we will focus on prayer, specifically how parents can pray for their children. Our guide will be Psalm 118. Today let’s begin with a parent’s prayer of thanksgiving.

Words matter. They have the power to build up and tear down. And once they escape our mouths, you cannot retrieve them. Words matter and the apostle Paul gives parents a needed warning about our words and our actions.

Today’s passage, the Shema (from the Hebrew word “hear”), is a confession of faith. It is recited every day by pious Jews and every Sabbath in the synagogues. We have been using these powerful verses as a parenting evaluation.

Today’s passage, the Shema (from the Hebrew word “hear”), is a confession of faith recited every day by pious Jews and every Sabbath in the synagogues.

Today’s reading is called the Shema. Shema is the Hebrew word hear, the first word that begins this passage. This is the parenting assessment. The Shema is a confession of faith recited every day by pious Jews and every Sabbath in the synagogues.

Young parents, cherish every day. Time flies. The psalmist says it this way:

Life goes by fast. In the blink of an eye. And in the blink of an eye, our children grow up. There is not a moment to lose. 

Children are God’s great gift! Check out this passage from the Psalms.

“The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.” Those words were proclaimed by the great Scottish pastor and writer Robert Murray McCheyne and echoed by John Owen, a seventeenth-century English theologian. We are capable of every sin.