No Commonplace Charge (is parenting)

Baby is teething and objects loudly to being put down for long...Mommy is so weary!🙏 ...with these two to keep her on her toes (and knees) besides! I am no longer parenting little children butI am grand-parenting little children which makes the messages below very relevant to my season of life as well! *** To leave children without principles isnot to make them free but it is to render them helpless Alistair Begg in We have within our keeping a very precious chargeof innocence soon reaping the harvest of its guardsno commonplace appointing from God, is parenthooda baby the anointing of wonder, pure and good we have within our caring, besides child's sweet delightthe onus of preparing the soul-dier for the fightno commonplace employment is the call they bestowfar more than mere enjoyment of watching Soul-dier grow we have within our reaching (for such a little time)wide flung windows of teaching far more than nursery rhyme no commonplace vocation to all whom God assignsthe careful cultivation of very tender vines What a priceless investment; the training of a childhow soon the world's resistance tests with lures, lie-defiledno commonplace endurance, a parent's prayers outpouredFor wisdom and assurance established in God's Word we have within our asking a very present AidWho tenders with love's tasking, commands to be obeyedFor this is no small gracing, a child, innocence-wroughtBut a Soul-dier soon facing life, armed with what was taught © Janet MartinLink to all four messages in this series below