Who we admire matters

It matters who we admire. And why we admire them.

Often those we admire are the influences we allow in our homes and around our children.

Our culture tells my daughters to be the women who do what men can do (or have done). Our culture tells my sons that a list of accomplishments should be their measure of worth. Our culture says to admire the appearance and elevate the gender, race, status, no matter how ungodly that voice may be. Our culture says followers determine influence and therefore should be admired. 

Not in this house.

As mothers who follow Jesus, we are entrusted with directing young hearts to admire what is pleasing to Him. That means protecting our children (what they watch, listen to, read, spend time doing, and who they spend their time with) as their roots grow deep in Christ. 

“Without a season of guarded innocence, purity has no soil in which to grow strong and healthy.” - Leslie Ludy

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. - 1 Peter 2:7-12