Love Your Kid! Your Child’s Future Depends On It

Love Your Kid! Your Child’s Future Depends On It

Have you ever wondered why God created us?
What is the purpose of our existence?
What does He want from you?
What is the desire of His “heart”?

By means of one of the last prophecies in the Old Testament, God transmitted His message of the necessity of the human father’s gaze:

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come strike the land with a curse” (Mal 4:5–6).

By means of these words, the Father disclosed His heart’s desire, his purpose and intention:
God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children in order that the hearts of children will turn to their fathers.

Why?
Because if human fathers turn their gaze, their attention, and their focus upon their children, their children will not only see their father’s love, but begin to feel the loving gaze of their heavenly Father.

Even St. Joseph himself lost sight of the twelve-year-old Jesus momentarily, leaving Him behind in Jerusalem, as he and Mary began their trek home after the feast of the Passover.
However, after realizing that his gaze upon Jesus was disrupted, he did everything within his fatherly power, seeking anxiously for his son, until his eyes finally rested upon Him in the temple.

You and I may lose sight of our children and forget that they desire and yearn for our gaze of love and approval.
Let us, however, be like Joseph and relentlessly seek their face and gaze into their eyes with the Father’s look of love.
If we continue to do so, they will one day have the confidence to break free from self-absorbed introspection, and rather than looking in, will look out into others, giving them the gaze of Christ’s love.

This is the intention, will, and desire of God:
to share Himself, His glory, His eternal love with you and your child.