power of a mother...

2 Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri. 3 He too walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong. 4 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father's death they became his advisers, to his undoing.

as a mother do you realize the power that you have? his mother encouraged him in doing wrong... can you imagine such a thing?? I don't know about you, but I constantly try to teach any children to do the right thing in spite of the circumstances... in spite of what their friends are doing... in spite of what feels good... but this woman, the boy's mother... encouraged him to do wrong.... I am speechless by such a thing...
I do not pretend that I have done the right thing by my children all of their lives... I do say that I did the best I could with what I had at the time... regardless of circumstance, I kept my children in church and God is faithful and my children know who God is... whether or not they will walk the path of the Lord as an adult remains to be seen... but I fully believe that if you train up a child as he should go when he is old he will not depart from it... so I believe that even if they have rough times and think they don't need God, in the end they will return to the ways of God... as I have changed over the last few years, I see changes in them also... I see my daughter read her bible in church... my son tells me he is reading his bible and I am thankful for the changes God is making in them...
a few years ago my son was in a boy's camp and one of the boys there who was only 15 years old had gotten arrested for selling drugs... and his mother was the one that had encouraged him to do so... she had a drug problem and she needed access to drugs, but she also needed income to feed the other children in the house... I remember how horrifed I was by hearing that story... the next thing that happened to the boy was that one of the counselors of the camp, a female, was in a sexual encounter with him... he was 15... I wonder today where the boy is... how the boy is... if God has ever gotten hold of him.... he used to tell my son that he didn't know how lucky he was to have the mother he had... my son said of course he did, but surely he did not, because he had never had a mother like this boy did... my son's mother would die for him... so surely he could not understand a mother that would lead him into sin and death...

we have the choice to instill in our children right and wrong... or just wrong... we lead by example... what are you leading your child into today... righteousness or hell....