Date: Wednesday, 26th March, 2025
Text: Psalm 127:3-5
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
The word of God says, “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.” Psalm 127:3-4
Arrows can be shot in different directions based on the will, purpose and discretion of the archer. In this case the parent is the archer while the child is the arrow. The arrow cannot direct itself; it strictly depends on the archer for directions.
Parenting is a serious work no parent can afford to joke with. As a parent your obligation is to shoot your arrows to specific directions. Unfortunately, many parents leave their own children to go to any direction they so desire or choose.
The truth is that if you don’t provide direction for your children someone else will and they will shoot them into their own selfish direction which may be disastrous.
The best direction you can shoot your children is God’s. In the first place, God owns them, so direct them back to him. The word of God says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6)
If you don’t shoot them in God’s direction, Satan and his agents will.
Children need our guidance and counselling as parents because we have the benefit of experience which they lack. They say, what an elder see sitting down, a child cannot see even if he climbs the tallest of trees.
Many children make irreparable errors because they don’t know what to do with their lives. Unfortunately, they were shot as arrows into the wrong directions by ungodly or careless parents. Make your own children a godly exception.
Prayer Nugget: Father, please, help me to shoot my arrows (children) in the right directions in Jesus name.
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