Dedicating our own lives to...
Dedicating our own lives to God is one thing. Dedicating someone else's life is a different
matter. People get all glassy-eyed at Hannah's giving her child, Samuel, into God's
service. They don't realize that today no one wants that done to them -- to be donated into
a holy child slavery.
A much better approach to one's children for God's sake was taken by Charlotte M. When
each of her children was born, she vowed to pray for them five minutes a day. She vowed
to take them regularly to worship. She vowed to listen carefully and to speak to them
respectfully.
