Our children's ministry leader shared the following article by Randy Alcorn with families at our church. It offers 10 practical ways to teach our children to handle money in a God-honoring way. This is an insightful article that will take only a few minutes to read.
Here's the intro:
"In the days of the Klondike gold rush, two miners struck a huge deposit. Feverishly excited, they unearthed more and more gold each day. Meanwhile they neglected to store up provisions for the winter. Then came the first blizzard. Nearly frozen, one scrawled a shaky note explaining their predicament. Months later a prospecting party discovered the note, along with two frozen bodies lying on top of a huge pile of gold.
Today countless children grow up begging and grabbing and clinging onto all the things money can buy. As adults, they rarely outgrow this shallow self-centeredness, but simply graduate to more money and bigger toys. Living their lives on earth as if this were all there is, they fail to prepare for their eternal future.
Christ told the story of a rich fool, to whom God said, “This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:20-21).
Five minutes after we die we’ll know exactly how we should have lived. But then it will be too late. The good news is, God gave us his Word so we don’t have to wait till we die to discover how we should have lived. And God gave our children Christian fathers, so we could show them what the world will not—how to live now in light of eternity."
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Training Your Children to Manage Money - Resources - Eternal Perspective Ministries
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1 comment:
That's a striking illustration about the two miners. Thanks for posting this.
It's yet another area where it will require massive amounts of wisdom and discernment to raise a child in our culture.
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