A friend of mine today made an interesting analogy. He gave a speech yesterday and it was about teaching kids affirmative language (TALK). I had prayed that it would go well and it was amazing to hear what God laid on his heart to share.
He talked about how we need to help kids set high targets to achieve, but it isn't enough to help them set this. Just like an arrow has a sharpened tip, we have to invest in our children to sharpen them. The Bible actually supports this thinking:
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. -Proverbs 27:17
It isn't enough just to invest in them, we have to go one step further. We have to pour into our children. An arrow by itself will never hit its target. It must be shot with a bow. How do you get a bow to work. You exert energy by pulling. The amount of strength you use to shoot this arrow comes through on the other end when released from the bow. The analogy is that we need to exert energy & pull on our children to help them hit their targets.
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