#42. The Mission of Motherhood: Teach Them to Obey Jesus

Jesus tells us to teach obedience to those for whom we have some sort of discipleship responsibility.

The most profoundly connected disciples Christian parents have are their own children. We are obliged to teach our kids to obey Jesus. Every moment and task in our children’s young lives is given by Jesus to be used for training them into obedience to Him. Whole body, whole heart, whole soul, whole mind, whole strength obedience. The sort of obedience which grows alongside of, comes from—and feeds—love for Jesus. Our job is to remind our children, in a way they can’t ignore, in all of life, that they live under the authority of the Lord. We are to use our temporary season of parental authority to train our children to live for him. Never was the commission to “teach them to obey everything I have commanded” more thorough than for a parent who gets to oversee their children’s first experiences of everything.