The goal of the godly mother, is that her children in the flesh--may be God's children in the spirit. A mother should be more careful of her children's pious breeding--than she should be fearful of her children's worldly bearing.
-William Secker, "The Wedding Ring" 1658
Taken from Gracegems.org

Daily I think about my children's spiritual lives.  I wonder if there is such a thing as "age of accountability".  What would happen if they died young?  When do I know when they are saved?  Am I simply raising "good", "moral" people who know all the right answers?  How do I cultivate a love for the Lord?  When will I see conviction of sin?  Should I back off of Bible memorization and teaching, because all ready at age 4 she knows the "right" answers.  Am I giving them head knowledge and not spiritual knowledge?

I liked the quote I posted above for a few reason. I loved the idea that my goal is that my children in the flesh....would be God's children in spirit.  I often pray that God would adopt them into his family so that they may be co-heirs with Christ.  

I love the second repentance because it is something I struggle with...being fearful of the world.  I don't want them to go to school because I don't want them to see and hear all the world has to offer.  Am I not trusting in the POWER of the Gospel?  I should be more concerned about their spiritual breeding than that they would be lured by the world.  I was reading Gospel Centered Parenting the other day and it said something similar....why would I think that the world would be seen more beautiful than the Gospel?  Do I believe (wrongly) that The Gospel is not exciting enough to compete with the world?

Trust God. Trust His Word. Continue to teach Your Children the Great Truths of the Bible...and almost more importantly...live a life that would draw them towards God...not contradict everything I teach them and push them away.

Oh Lord, please save my children.  They are sinners.  They are depraved.  They NEED you.  Please adopt them into your family as sons and daughters.  Lord, I ask for wisdom and grace as I teach and train them daily.  I Need it.  I can not do it without you.  

The Utter Ruin and Spiritual Death of Your Children

Parents! Your children are as surely as grown-up people, "dead in trespasses and sins!" May no parent fail fully to realize the spiritual state in which all human beings are naturally found. Unless you have a very clear sense of the utter ruin and spiritual death of your children, you will be incapable of being made a blessing to them. Go to them, I beg you, not as to 'sleepers' whom you can by your own power awaken from their slumber—but as to 'spiritual corpses' who can only be quickened by a  divine power!

If you think that your child is 'not really depraved', if you indulge foolish notions about the 'innocence of childhood', it should not surprise you if you remain barren and unfruitful.

If you would bring spiritual life to your child—you must most vividly realize that child's state. It is dead, dead! God will have you feel that your child is dead in trespasses and sins—as you once were. God would have you come into contact with that death by painful, crushing, humbling sympathy. If you would raise your dead child to spiritual life—you must feel the chill and horror of your child's death yourself. You must have, more or less, a distinct sense of the dreadful wrath of God, and of the terrors of the judgment to come. Depend upon it, when the spiritual death of your children alarms and overwhelms you—then it is that God is about to bless you!

-Charles Spurgeon (Christian Training of Children)
Taken from gracegems.org