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Better Than Gold
By mstrohm | February 20, 2010
I am thinking about the Olympics and the training and instruction of our children. Olympic champions rise to the top through a combination of their God given talent and a HUGE amount of drive.
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
“Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.” I Corinthians 9:24-27
Parents, your efforts are to be focused on far more than winning Olympic Gold, dedicate yourself to daily training your children to “Run in such a way as to get the prize” – eternal life through Jesus Christ. I believe Christian parents experience success through a combination of total dependence on God coupled with a consuming desire to train and instruct their children in His ways.
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4
Mark and Ellen Strohm
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