“The Most Excellent Way” is love, acceptance and forgiveness. These attributes of God are to be expressed to children by their parents, just
as our heavenly Father expresses them to us.
We parents (if we are born-again believers) now have the power of Christ within us to break the chains of bondage. It is no longer necessary for our past sins to be passed on to our children: “the old has gone; the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17b). Show them!
During our season of addiction, we were selfishly seeking to satisfy our own appetites and desires. We gave too little of ourselves to our children —much less than they needed and wanted. They suffered because of us.
We must be careful not to bring the selfish attitudes of our old life into our new life at our children’s expense. We must mend, repair and rebuild. Our concern for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs must meet or exceed our concern for ourselves. In fact, they should be intimately involved with our new life with Christ. It’s a whole new world for them.
Allow them to share with you the love you have received, and to grow with you in the knowledge and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said,“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by
no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one
little child like this in My name receives Me.
Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin,
it would be better for him
if a millstone were hung around his neck,
and he were drowned
in the depth of the sea.”
Matthew 18:2-7 NKJV
The Children's Meeting is a unique environment — an alternative to childcare (babysitting) — in which youngsters are encouraged to freely express their feelings of fear, hopelessness, guilt and frustration typically felt by children living with addicted parents. Our kids are validated for who they are, assured that Jesus will never leave them nor forsake them.
