What is the Most Important Thing Your Parents Have Ever Taught You

What is the Most Important Thing Your Parents Have Ever Taught You?


The most important thing my parents have taught me and are still teaching me is to have a relationship with God. To believe for myself that God exists, to believe for myself that God loves me unconditionally. They teach me to believe that I was created not just by my parents but by the creator of life itself.

As a child, you follow your parents in all the pieces of their lives, their work, their play, their family, and their friends. A huge portion of my parents’ lives is their relationships with God. I’m involved in both my parents’ church families. I’m learning the importance of living my life for God and not living my life for Satan. In my parents teaching me the Bible, I’m learning right from wrong. I’m learning that God has a purpose for my life. I attended Children’s Ministry at church where I learned the bible through stories and song.

Now that I am a teen I am part of the teen ministry and attend full service with the adults. Working within the teen ministry I’m learning how God wants me to handle peer pressure at school,, how to deal with my parents and everyone around me. It’s not easy and I find myself making a lot of mistakes. But I’m also learning that God is patient and merciful and forgives me. When I come home from school and tell my parents things that bother me they always want to know what part I played in the situation and could I have handled it differently. They always tell me I shouldn’t allow the other kids to be the reason why I make a bad decision.

I’m not always happy with trying to follow God’s will. It seems better for me to do the opposite. Be mad at my mom for making me do things I don’t want to do. Lying about doing something when I really didn’t feel like doing it. Taking stuff even after she told me no. Listening to music I know she doesn’t want me listening to. I don’t see anything wrong with what I’m doing. But I’m learning that if you’re not doing God’s will, you’re doing Satan’s will. I don’t want to follow Satan.

In my parents’ teachings about God, I’m learning they are not perfect. They make mistakes. They ask God for forgiveness. I’m learning that God is our Heavenly Father and we are all his children. My parents teaching me about God and helping me realize I need a relationship with Him for my life to be on track is the most important they have taught and are continuing to teach me.