Two Kingdoms
To properly build a foundation of purpose in our lives as parents and the lives of our children, we must understand that we live in two separate but integrated kingdoms. These kingdoms intersect at various levels of grace, love, faith, and truth. The first kingdom and the one that we are most familiar with on a daily level is the physical kingdom of man. It is the physical world in which we live. This kingdom can be touched daily with our physical senses. We utilize our five basic senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch to navigate through the physical kingdom. However, the second and more important kingdom is the spiritual Kingdom of God. This kingdom is touched by grace, love, faith, and truth. We parents must develop a passion to fulfill our true purpose in the Kingdom of God as our primary function in life. Only by finding and pursuing the passion and purpose in the Kingdom of God can we as parents make an impact in the physical kingdom of man. If we want to make a strategic difference in our lives and change our physical world we must begin in the Spiritual Kingdom of God. We must build our life and family’s foundation on the Spiritual Principles of God’s Word. We all want to make a lasting difference with our lives, but honestly very few of us have developed a strategy on how we are going to accomplish this.
We must develop an integrated plan of action. This plan must utilize the concept of planting seeds that will allow us as individuals to transform our lives, our families, our friends, our generation, and our country. The seed that we will use to build this foundation of purpose is our daily habits. These daily habits used in conjunction with a strategic plan to help others will lead us as parents to change our children’s destinies. Why because we are taking ownership of our lives as parent leaders and making the proper spiritual and physical investments in our family’s lives.
We as parents must realize that leading true change in our family must first comes from within our own lives. As we discussed in the earlier blog about modeling our beliefs to our children, if we do not develop and build the foundation of our beliefs and our spiritual character then there will be nothing for us to model to our children. We will be like a ship without a compass or as the bible states we will be building our life on shifting sand. We will wander through life not truly making an impact in our family and with others. This development process takes effort and hard work but if implemented over the course of our lifetime will bring about true change in our lives. It starts with daily planting seed in our spiritual lives and letting that spiritual seed grow over our lifetime into a tree that touches every area of our physical world. By continuously planting good seed in our lives, we will see the results of a firm foundation being developed in not only our lives as parents but in the lives of our family.