To every thing there is a season, and a time every purpose under the heaven – Ecclesiastes 3:1.
Time is precious; it’s something we can’t restore when lost. Each day, we should appreciate the time given to us by spending time with family.
We live in a busy world, but because the world is busy does not mean we have to be joining in it. Family is important to God, but Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy the relationship in families. Satan keeps us distracted with things we need to do or should be done. He distract us with things that were said or done to us by a family member to keep the relationship divided.
Families don’t sit around the dinner table like they once did and talk at the dinner table. Parents and children bring their cell phones to the table to keep tract what’s going on in social media and not keeping tract of what’s happening in the family.
Relationships are built on communication, problems are resolved by communication, forgiveness is giving by communication and when we don’t take the time to communicate we lose the value of family. Most parents don’t know what is going on in their children lives because they don’t take the time to talk with them. They give them a cell phone and a Ipad and let them go for themselves.
Children needs parenting, and God holds us responsible for parenting (Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it -Proverbs 22:6). Train refers to the total process of molding a child’s life. The Bibical pattern of effective parental training emphasizes a balance of instructions and discipline. The ideal parent is to be neither overly authoritarian nor overly permissive.
Time needs to be spend with children to know their mental and emotional well-being. Children needs to hear their parent tell them they love them and not just when they bring a good report card home or win at a sporting arena.
Take time to spend with your child and your spouse. Time missed can’t be resolved, you don’t want to look back and say I wish I would have spent more time with them.