TEXT: COLOSSIANS 3:
19-21
A family consist of father, mother and their child(ren).
We are all different in character and attitude, but in one way or the other we
tend to imitate or imbibe character and attitude of people that we relate with,
either consciously or unconsciously. This is why the bible says in 1 Corinthians
15: 33 that “Do not be deceived, evil communication corrupts good manner.” The
type of the company you keep, the type of family you are from, the environment
you live in play a vital role in your life. Every member of a family should
live and relate together in love and harmony, they should share ideas and
things together in love and never live in hostility towards each other.
Directly or indirectly; whatever behaviour, character and
habit that one member of the family has will rob on other members of the
family. Character and attitude are like river, they flow to the rest of the
members of the family. If a member of the family is mean and hostile, the rest
of the family may follow suit. I am the type that loves things to be well
organised and done perfectly. The place I reverence most in the house is my
bed; I can’t stand to see my bed messed up. I could not stand it when the
smallest part of the duvet is not straight and neatly laid! Because of this I used to tell my children
not to sit on my bed, if they have to sit, I will be telling them how to move,
sit, turn… giving an endless instruction they need to follow to sit on my bed.
Overtime, I noticed that my children had cultivated this
habit from me; they started telling themselves the same thing I used to tell
them. “You can’t sit on my bed, my duvet will be messed up, your leg is…… One
day I realised that they have started responding to my attitude, I quickly
corrected the negative flow of attitude, and they also started accommodating
and tolerating themselves. The positive things in me also they imbibed, when
people are living together; they respond to all characters and attitudes both
positive and negative, this is where it is important to ask God to help us and
reveal to us where we need to make amends. Children learn what they live, if
they live in a friendly environment, they will love and be nice to everybody
around them, if they live in hostility, they will be hostile to people around
them.
As Godly family, we should love and respond together in love,
in fear of God and in prayer. Families should not live in hatred, anger,
malice, bitterness. As parents we are to lay a good example for the children,
because they will respond to our attitude thinking that it is the best way to
live. They see us as their role model. Let us live to impact positive things
into our children, so that they can also impact their children and their
generation positively.
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