Before making any resolution: 1. Consider the Scriptures carefully. Some matters for the Christian are clearly commanded or forbidden in the Bible… Other matters are not so clearly or specifically commanded or forbidden… It is in these areas where it is often profitable to make a specific personal resolution. 2. Consider your other necessary duties. As Christians, we have a number of pre-existing responsibilities that must take precedence over personal resolutions… Before making any personal resolution, ask yourself how it will affect other essential things (that God has commanded of you). 3. Consider how your family, your church, and the reputation of Christ in a watching world will be affected, either by your faithfulness, or by your failure to follow through (Luke 14:28-30). 4. (Consider) your motives… a. Is it truly my goal in making this resolution to glorify God through obedience and self-discipline and to receive the praise that comes only from Him? Or am I trying to gain the approval and admiration of people? (cf. Luke 6:26; 1 Cor. 4:3-5). b. Am I trying to appease my conscience by doing well in this one area in order to distract myself from conviction of another sinful behavior? (cf. Matthew 15:1-6). c. Am I acting defensively, angrily, or in prideful response to criticism from another person? In other words, do I have a sort of “I’ll show them” motive for making this resolution? (cf. Phil. 2:3). 5. Consider the cost. We don’t generally need to resolve to do the easy things. The difficulty, discomfort, self-denial, and even sometimes persecution involved in the Christian’s pursuit of holiness are the very aspects that make personal resolution necessary. Consider these carefully, weighing them opposite the rewards. Then determine that by God’s strength you will endure, understanding the price you must pay, and knowing that what you are doing is good and right.
Daryl Wingerd

Children

Children

TOPICAL STUDY

CHILDREN

EXO 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

EXO 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

EXO 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

DEU 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

DEU 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

DEU 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

DEU 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

DEU 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

PSA 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

PSA 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

PRO 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

PRO 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

PRO 6:20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

PRO 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

PRO 13:1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

PRO 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

PRO 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

PRO 17:6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

PRO 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

PRO 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

PRO 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

PRO 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

PRO 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

PRO 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

PRO 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

MAT 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

MAT 18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

MAT 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

MAT 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

MAR 10:16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

EPH 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

EPH 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

COL 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

COL 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

1TI 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

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