Our children are eternal human beings whose lives and souls will last throughout all of eternity. God has given them into our hands to protect and lead and shepherd them through this life on earth.
Our children will become treasures in heaven if they indeed learn to love God and serve him with their whole hearts. This is eternal work — to train the hearts, minds, and consciences in righteousness. This is the vital work of building a morally, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually strong generation of children who will be prepared to function responsibly for the rest of their lives.
But before we can do this work effectively, we have to come to a point of yielding our hearts to God's will. We have to surrender our old expectations of who we thought we were to the calling of the Lord on our lives. And if we have been blessed with children, we have to surrender ourselves wholeheartedly to our role of being mothers after God's design.
When we choose to sacrifice our own goals and desires to serve our children, we are furthering His eternal work. We know that, through our labor and love, over time he will faithfully build our children into a righteous heritage.
Read more about this in The Mission of Motherhood.
