Children or Kids

Kid: 1. A young goat.(Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - 1879)

Kids! They are such a blessing. They each have their own little personality, right from birth. They experience life in their younger years with such "wide-eyed wonder". And oh how they can cause us to experience such a wide range of emotions! But most importantly, we want them to learn the ways of God, to be happy, healthy, and of course, we always want nothing but the best that we can offer for them. Do you feel this way about kids?

When we become parents, I believe that we learn fairly quickly that our children will imitate just about anything -- and everything -- that we do. So as parents we learn the true value of being a role model, an example, for our children. We can even see this occur in the overall attitudes that children develop. It doesn't take too much thinking to be able to look around us today and see how this generation of "me, Me, ME!" has come about. So as true Christian mothers, we want to present Every Single Aspect of our lives to our children in which they see the Lord -- FIRST.
So here is something I would like to share, that for some of you, may be even a bit of a "shock" -- Do you know that Satanists call children "kids" for their sacrifices? They do this because Satan is identified with a goat. Do you recall the following verses of Scripture?
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:"(Matthew 25:31-34)
"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:"(Matthew 25:41)
So our Lord is going to separate the sheep from the goats. As God's children, He says that we are His sheep and He is our Shepherd...we are NOT His "goats". So I have often wondered, why in the world do people today insist upon calling their children, "kids"? And who would want us to do such a thing? Who would want us to identify our innocent children with young goats -- "kids"?

I would like to share something with you that our 10 year old daughter said about two years ago: "I don't want to be a goat! I want to be a sheep!! I'm a lamb, one of God's children and I'm NOT a 'kid'!!" She said this to us in reference to someone who called her a "kid". We study God's word with our children regularly, and they remember what they have read in their Holy Bibles -- and the various topics we speak of on a daily basis. So when an adult talks about "kids", our daughter is polite and does not say anything, but has told us that she says to herself, "Well, I know I'm a lamb, not a kid."


Did you ever notice...no where in God's word are children ever called -- "kids"?!


My precious visitor, which would you want running around in your house?



A house full of "kids"...
Or children?