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Fat

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Where and how are habits of your childern formed?
« on: November 18, 2013, 08:50:52 pm »
By F.B. Meyer

His mother made him a little coat. 1 Sam. 2. 19.

WHAT happy work it was! Those nimble fingers flew along the seams, because love inspired them. All her woman's art and wit were put into the garment, her one idea and ambition being to make something which should be not only useful, but becoming. Not mothers only, but fathers, are always making little coats for their children, which they wear long years after a material fabric would have become worn out. How many men and women are wearing today the coats which their parents cut out and made for them long years ago!

Habits are the vesture of the soul. The Apostle bade his converts put off the old man, "which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts," and to put on the new man, "which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness"; to put off anger, wrath, and malice, whilst they put on mercy, humility, and meekness. What words could better establish the fact that habits are (as the name indicates) the clothing of the inner life! Where and how are habits formed? Not in the mid-passage of life, but at its dawn; not in great crises, but in daily cir- cumstances; not in life's arena, but in the home, amid the surroundings of earliest childhood. Oh that the spotless robe of Christ's righteousness may ever be exhibited before those with whom we daily come in contact!

By their behaviour to each other and to their children; by the ordering of the home-life; by their actions, more than by their words; by the way in which they speak, and spend their leisure hours, and pray — men and women are making the little coats which, for better or worse, their children wear ever after, and perhaps pass down to after generations.

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Re: Where and how are habits of your childern formed?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2013, 10:18:55 am »
Part of the problem is that most parents only worship God in the church and seldom take that worship home. Children need to see that God should be in our daily activities.

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Re: Where and how are habits of your childern formed?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2013, 11:52:06 am »
Part of the problem is that most parents only worship God in the church and seldom take that worship home. Children need to see that God should be in our daily activities.
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Meyer says:
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Habits are the vesture of the soul.

And that is true, and children learn bad habits from observing their parents.