“The
wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.” Proverbs 28:1
When I
played baseball I was a good contact hitter. I had a wide stance and a short
quick batting stroke which meant I hit a lot of line drives and seldom struck
out. In fact, during my first two years of college ball I didn’t strike out at
all. I didn’t hit any home runs or many extra base hits either.
Going
into my senior year I decided I was going to start swinging for the fences.
Sure, I struck out a few more times but I also got more extra base hits!
I share
that to say this, how can you be a Home Run Kid if you don’t swing for the
fences? As I close out this series on Raising Home Run Kids I am going to
challenge you to raise kids who live out their faith boldly in a rapidly
deteriorating culture.
How can
you raise kids who swing for the fences unless you are willing and ready to go
deep as a parent? You must be willing to swing for the fences with three bold
parenting decisions. Tomorrow I will share those in greater detail and share
practical suggestions to help you with those decisions.
Solomon
says that “the righteous” are bold as a lion. What does he mean by that?
Here
are a few thoughts on boldness.
Those
who are righteous have the peace of God. If He has made you righteous you have
made peace with your past through His forgiveness and grace. You can also have
peace in the present because He is with you! And you can have peace over your
future because He has said He will be with you always!
The
righteous can be bold because they have the presence of God! When you have His
presence you also have His power, so why fear?
When
you are righteous you can claim the promises of God. You know what God has done
for His righteous people in the past and His Word promises what He will do for
His righteous today and tomorrow! You can live with courage when you trust His
promises!
Righteous
people have the partnership of other believers! Everything that righteous
people have individually they also have corporately as they worship, fellowship
and serve together! We have each other’s back and God has all of us covered!
Why should we fear?
To
Raise Home Run Kids who swing for the fences, kids who are bold as lions in
believing and living their faith it will require bold parenting on your part
and bold pastoring on mine.
I
pledge to live righteously before you and before them. I pledge to call you to
righteousness through the Word in my preaching and teaching and leading.
Together,
let’s help them to know the peace of God in a world of strife and turmoil!
Together,
let’s cherish and nurture God’s presence in our lives in everything we do at
FredWes!
Together,
let’s help them know the promises of God through the Bible and by making bold
decisions based on God’s promises for the church and in our individual lives!
Let’s
make bold decisions that will show our kids what happens when we trust God
courageously and He comes through in supernatural ways for His glory at
FredWes!
You can’t
have a Home Run Life or Home Run Kids if you aren’t swinging for the fences!