As parents, we desire the best for our children. The best school, the best soccer team, the best cricket team, and the best music school, the list is endless. Our heart desires to see our children grow up to be successful, well-bred individuals. It is such a wonderful thing to dream big and great things for our children.

How about including Jesus in our dreams for our children?

Picture your children and Jesus sitting together and working on a school project, your child and Jesus practicing together for the next match.

What a wonderful team!

It is for this very reason Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Luke 18:16.

Jesus is mindful of your children. He doesn’t in any way consider them amateurs to work with. The way God the Father desires to speak, reveal secrets and work through us adults, He desires to walk, talk, and show children a glimpse of heaven. God, our Heavenly Father, who better than Him will know our children? He works in their lives in the way they understand.

Through the ages we see the devil trying to destroy a generation, an attempt to stop God’s plan of Salvation. He did it during Moses’ time. He did again during Jesus’ time.

In our time, he is trying to destroy this generation by not only harming the children physically but also mentally. Over the span of three to four years, the digital world has gained a prominent place in the lives of this generation. It started for good reasons but all the wrong reasons have overpowered them.

The explosion of knowledge is making this generation smarter but not stronger. We see the rise of young children struggling with issues like insecurity, fear, hopelessness, depression, lack of confidence, etc. It is because our children are so used to communicating with machines that they are getting insensitive to the real touch of the living God. Their minds are trapped in this digital world that is numbing our children’s creativity. They are losing the touch with their Creator and invariably they get into a shell that makes them believe that they are all alone in all their struggles and they alone have to work it out. This is the lie the devil is using for his benefit.

Help them recognize God’s love for them. As we feed our children with the Word of God, the Holy Spirit works alongside and speaks into their life. Just as the Holy Spirit renews us from within, He works within our children.

Even as you read this, encourage your children to gain as much knowledge from the world, yet be not of it! Let’s raise Daniels, Josephs who dared to stay in a foreign land adapt to their ways but yet preserved their hearts for the living God. And God promoted them to great heights.

Let’s trust God with our children – they make a great team!