Ginger Hubbard

That's how they learn these things is by teaching it to them.

So at a very young age, I taught them that biblical obedience, the way that God wants them to obey is all the way right away and with a happy heart.

And then for what to put off for disobeying, obviously we put off disobedience.

And I would say something like what I have written here, honey, when you disobey me, you're disobeying God and it will not go well with you.

And see that scripture, it says that it does not go well for children when they live in disobedience.

And one thing, there was always a consequence for direct disobedience with my kids in our home, especially when they were really learning, what does it mean to obey?

And so before I administered a consequence for direct disobedience, I would always say, I love you too much to allow you to disobey.

So that way they knew that it was love that motivated me to discipline them because I do.

I love my kids too much to allow them to live their lives in foolish ways.

So put off disobedience.

What are they to put on?

Obedience.

And so I would say Colossians 3.20 says,

It says that children are to obey their parents in everything because this is right.

And so, see, this doesn't take that long.

We talked about how it can be an inconvenience.

you know, to take time to train our kids.

But when we have it right in front of us, this just helped me so much to be more consistent in moments where I may not have been consistent.

I mean, that took, for disobeying, that took, what, less than a minute for us to go through heart-probing questions, what to put off and what to put on.

This is kind of designed more for younger kids, but all you've got to do is just reword it to match the maturity level of older kids.