Psalty the singing songbook was on my mind today. I guess after listening to Avery's toy sing the alphabet song for the 20th time i remembered one of the old children's songs i learned from Psalty. It was about hiding God's word in our heart using verses of the Bible. The song is great and I plan on teaching it to Avery. I put the words at the end of this email. Hope you are doing well my friend.
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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:20
Paul uses this same verse in Ephesians and there notes this is the first commandment with a promise attached. When you obey your parents, you will live a long good life. With age and years comes great wisdom and understanding, along with many lessons for life. Parents begin as children and throughout making their own choices and taking different paths become who they are. Learning from them is one of the most important thing for a child to do, and even more important honoring what they say and who they are.
With this command comes great responsibility on the part of the parent. Suddenly they are the teacher and leader of the children. You become the model of how life should be lived and how we should behave. Children watch your actions, listen to your words, and know more about you then you would ever like them to. So expect children to be paying attention even when you don’t realize it.
As children of parents we are to understand our parents have greater wisdom then us in all things. We are to honor them in the same way a wife is to honor her husband, for who they are. It pleases the Lord to do such things, and is the Christian way. By obeying your parents you are pleasing your King. This is the greatest reason to do anything.
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