Scriptures to be read:
Ecclesiastes 3:1
1 Corinthians 7:8
Proverbs 4:20-27
Luke 2:51-52
Colossians 3:20
2 Peter 3:18
Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us there is a time for everything that God has planned for us.
Whether we are young daughters or older daughters God wants what is best for us. If God has called us to be single that is best or if he calls us to be married that is best. Where ever we are, what God wants for us is to be pure.
Where you go, what you do, look at, listen to, eat drink and touch matters to God. Proverbs 4:20-27 talks about the importance of keeping our hearts pure before God:
20My son, pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.
21 Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
turn your ear to my words.
21 Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
Last month we talked about God calling us to be his children and the plans he has for his children to complete the good works he planned for us to do. He has called us before the
world was created and before the world was created he already planned
the good work he wanted us to do!
What could that good work be?
2 Peter 3 tells us:
we ought to live holy and godly lives
make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him
be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
What does God specifically call children to do?
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.Jesus example to children is found in Luke 2:51-52
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Although Jesus was his parents savior he still submitted to them and obeyed them. He knew all things, understood all things and was doing good things, godly things, yet still he did what his father in heaven commanded him to do and that was obey his parents.
That is the example Jesus left children to follow. What an example we have in Jesus Christ.
