Change Your Children’s Mindsets, Mama!

Change Your Children’s Mindsets, Mama!

by Becky Dietz

I was reading about God’s instructions to Moses yesterday in Exodus 3–to go and deliver Israel from slavery to the Egyptians.  Verse 22 stood out to me.  “But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, namely, of her who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put on your sons and daughters.  So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Women.  Women were to ask other women for treasures.   And they were to clothe their sons and daughters with these riches!   Now remember, the Israelites were slaves.  When you’re a slave, you have the mindset of a slave—you do what you’re told.  You would also have a poverty mindset.  You’d feel helpless, used, and abused. 

But God knew how to change all of that. He has transformative power.  And he empowered these mamas.  “Go and get treasures and put them on your sons and daughters.” This is a picture of more than outward treasures.  I imagine these mamas began to tell their children who they really were—sons and daughters of Abraham, Jacob & Isaac.  These children began to see their value and worth. 

God has empowered us in the same way.  Tell your children who they really are.  They are made in the image of God Almighty!   They’ve been created to be the temple—the dwelling place—of God Himself.  God knew them before they were born and designed every part of their being—intricately.  Fill their minds with treasures!

After all...these are the very children who did—and will—enter the Promised Land.  God knows how to prepare them.