New Year's Thoughts for Moms

I was really encouraged by this post today over on The Gospel Coalition by Christina Fox:  The New Year for Your Children.  In it, she describes a few different ways that moms (and dads as well, I suppose) can try to engage their children about Jesus and the gospel throughout the new year.  The one that I think is the most important for me to work on was the fourth:

Ask the Lord to help you be sensitive to his promptings. Above all, be in prayer, asking God to show you what your children need to learn. Make it a daily prayer that he would make you sensitive to teaching moments as they arrive. Seek God's wisdom to guide you as you teach your children about who God is and what he has done for them through Christ.

Personally, I continue to be amazed at how much children understand, even when they're young toddlers.  I'm regularly reminded of this with Enoch, and I realize that even the most basic things I tell him are shaping his view of the world around him.  For example - why does the sun rise?  why does it rain?  why should he obey his parents?  why should he be gentle with his baby sister?  It can be so easy to explain these things away with the shortest, simplest answer possible, yet the Lord often reminds me that it is in these small moments and rather mundane lessons that He can be glorified when I point my children's hearts to Him. 

I do pray, as Christina Fox recommended, that the Lord will continue to make me sensitive to the little opportunities to point my children back to Christ whenever they come my way (and that I would also have the patience and wisdom required as well). 

Hope you enjoy the post as much as I did!