Spiritual Magnets & Moral Gravity
2 Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, (bad thing to do after getting a command from a prophet) He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. - He had his own answer and though of what the answer should be.
We bathe in the Lord's river Jordan instead of the river Obana. So, this is true in parenting, we do it the Lord's way, not our way.
Alma- Chp. 36-42- He tailors things to each child, one on one with each one.
Got inspiration for each child, when they were born about their character.
Spiritual Magnets
D&C 93 (Gives great hope about Children, one of the deepest doctrinal sections in the D&C.) Raise your children in light & truth.
D&C 88:40 For aintelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; bwisdom receiveth wisdom; ctruth embraceth truth; dvirtue loveth virtue; elight cleaveth unto light; fmercy hath gcompassion on mercy and claimeth her own; hjustice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things.
As a parent- surround them by light & truth, because they have a magnet that attracts and receives the light & truth. Control the enviroment as much as you can control it, so the children can attract light.
Joshua 4: 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he adried up from before us, until we were gone over:
We have stones that God gives us or that we can put there, that we can use to explain and teach our children about God.
Moral Gravity-
Have child the is at a higher level and has a friend at a lower level. Does the child bring the friend up to his level? The law of moral gravity says that it's easier to go down, so that's most likely to happen.
If we have a belief higher than our behavior, then that gap creates guilt. So, either my behavior has to change and match my belief, or my belief has to change to equal my behavior. But, it's easier to change the belief.
Spiritual Erosion- One generations exception, becomes the next generation's rule.
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