What are you Showing?

What are you Showing?

by | Jan 24, 2025 | Singles and Married

Reading Time: 2 minutes

What are you Showing?

It’s just amazing how we are not intentional in curating the right atmosphere for our children to grow in. We end up raising children that will become a pain to us in the future. Listen, the atmosphere in which a child grows is important. A child that grows in an atmosphere of love will be full of love.

A home always filled with anger, shouting, physical abuse, etc. will raise a child who is damaged, regardless of what you tell that child. This is because children learn more from what they see than from what they are told. They learn more from YOUR SHOWING than from YOUR TELLING. If your showing is wrong, just keep your telling to yourself, because it’s your showing that will mold them.

So, what are you showing your kids?

Sometimes we deceive ourselves that children don’t see and know what’s going on. I came bearing new news today: they know! They see! They hear!

Dear husband and wife, what are you playing before your kids? Remember the sheep of Jacob? They eventually gave birth to that which they constantly looked upon (Genesis 30:37-39). As your children behold your relationship with each other, you’re molding something in them and that’s what they will give birth to in their lives. So, your marriage is not just about you and your spouse; it has a great impact on your children.

Dear singles, as you’re searching for a spouse, please have your children in mind. Go for a spouse who will help you in creating the right atmosphere for your children to grow in. Go for a spouse that will be the right example for your children. That man you’re considering, if your son becomes exactly like him, will that be okay? I just said to ask o…

The story of Abraham and Isaac, as they journey together to offer the sacrifice as commanded by God, is instructive. They get to a point in their journey and Isaac asks,

“…Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭22‬:‭7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Isaac must have been pondering on this for a long time. I’ve SEEN my father many times make sacrifices. There’s always the wood, the fire, and the lamb. What’s going on here now? Where is the lamb for the sacrifice?

The point is this: Isaac knew the rudiments of a sacrifice because he had been following his dad and watching him. Abraham was SHOWING.

The question again is: what are you showing?

How to Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

How to Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

by | Jun 21, 2021 | Children

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Who is your neighbor? Is it the family next to your family? The families on your street? Your friend? Your classmate? Your church friend? Who exactly is your neighbor? Why should you love your neighbor?

Let’s see what Jesus did about neighbours in the bible.

And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’
Matthew 22:39 ICB

Jesus was talking about what loving someone else like you love yourself. Now ask yourself this question – “how much do I love myself?”

Thinking like this will help you take notice of how good or bad you have been treating yourself. If you are good to yourself, you will most likely treat others well and if you’re not, well, you will treat them badly.

Look at the way you think of yourself. Do you have healthy self-esteem and not self-pride. If your esteem is high, you will likely esteem others well too.

What words do you use on yourself? Are they negative words that you use to keep telling you how bad you are?

The verse above talks about how you are supposed to love someone – as yourself. And your neighbor is the nearest person to you. Not people who live beside you in the same compound or on the street. Your neighbor is whoever is close to you at any place you are.

On the bus, on the road, in class – anywhere you find yourself together with someone.

Yes, your neighbour lives beside you in the same compound or on the same street, but Jesus’ teaching wants you to see your neighbour beyond that. He wants you to see anybody you meet anywhere as your neighbour and treat them kindly just like He treats you kindly.

For instance, if you are sitting beside a young person like yourself on a bus and the person’s item falls down unnoticed by them, you should help to pick and give it to them. That’s the kind of love Jesus was talking about. Not that you ignore and look the other way.

For this series we will be looking at ways you can love your neighbour as yourself. May Jesus hi you a heart of love. Amen.

Prayer:
Lord, teach me how to show much love to my neighbor In Jesus’name, amen.

Action plan:
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