Child & Baby Dedication
Dedication of Samuel to the Lord
"I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him. Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they worshiped the Lord there. 1 Samuel 1:27-28
What is Child Dedication?
Dedicating your child is a public act in which believing parent(s), and sometimes entire families, make a commitment before the Lord to submit a child to God's will and to raise that child according to God's Word and God's ways. We believe that children are a gift from God, and parents are caretakers of the children God has given them. Parents who dedicate a child are making a promise to the Lord to raise the child in a godly way, prayerfully until he or she can make a decision on his or her own to follow God.
As parents, what else should we consider?
Are we (am I) willing to oversee our child's Christian development? Scripture tells us that we are to train a child in the way he should go (Proverbs 22:6). Dedication of children to God is a promise to model a Christian lifestyle to your children. In a sense, a Christian dedication of a child is a dedication of the parent(s) to be godly role models.