Thoughtful Thursday: Instilling faith

Is it too early to instil faith in your young children?

I've started incorporating prayer at bedtime-- a very short prayer that they can both say before we go to bed.

It's something very new I only started about a month ago.

I feel like it's my duty to let my children know about God. My family were not really church goers or very into the Christian faith, but from 2009, my mother started to go to church and we all got baptised in 2009 and gave our lives to Christ.

In that same year, my mother died.

And I really felt that was her duty to lead me back to God before she died-- and I feel like I need to do the same for my kids-- the earlier the better.

When they get older-- they will have their own choice to what they want to follow but I pray as I have sown the seed of faith at this early age, it will continue to grow with them. I hope as well that they will be familiar with faith, prayer and everything else when they get to an age where they won't need as much of my input.

Especially considering how scary and uncertain the world is becoming.. the least I can do as a mother is instil the gift of faith in my kids. I may not always be there to hold their hands when they are going through turbulent times; but for them to know they can communicate to God gives me peace.

For them to know that God has got their back and is protecting them is the best thing I can do. They may not see the importance of it now; but as they get older, they will understand.