Unwritten laws

We are born as an unwritten book. Each baby has the potential to be a genius on this earth. However, parents as well as the environment of the baby are giving them guidelines on how to behave which can make or break the child. 

These guidelines are often unwritten laws and mostly influenced by culture, religion, societal believes, levels of education of the parents, the family, as well as the political winds of the time. 

They are conveyed to the babies as they grow. Most of them are unspoken and rather expressed by example. This thought can cause young parents to become anxious and worried as they do not know how deeply their thinking and behavior can effect their child and it’s future. The child even picks up on this insecurity and mirrors it too. 

This means that the child is like a sponge and picks up every emotion or conviction it’s exposed to.

The guidelines parents need to be aware of can be packaged as the laws of life and can be very helpful to guide them and their children.

The laws of life consist of physical, religious, societal, political and emotional laws. 

The Bible gives us the spiritual laws. The spiritual laws tell us who to love what to do and what not to do. Martin Luther unpacked them in a very practical, physical and social way too. 

Then there are the physical laws and policies of countries and communities.

Also social laws and how to behave and to be accepted are part of the list. 

This brings me to the point I want to make. All these laws and policies or behavior influencers have a place  and  since we are flexible beings and adopt to what has influenced us mostly. 

We cannot select what works best but can if we are aware of how they influence us and our kids we can try to avoid these influences.

May the Lord open our eyes that we may be aware of what has influenced us to act the way we do and to break with wrong customs.

Love God more than anything else. This is the greatest law and love your neighbours  as yourselves. 

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