A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
November 24🌷🌷
“..Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6)
We can see from Deut. 6:4-9 what responsibility parents have towards their children. Verse 4 says, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD”. This means that first of all the parents should have a definite personal experience of the living Lord Jesus Christ and must have hunger for the Word of God.
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might” (v.5). After coming to know the living God, they should love Him with all their heart, mind and soul. “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart” (v.6). They should keep the Word of God in their hearts by daily meditation. They should read their Bible prayerfully, upon their knees, at least thrice a day. “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up” (v.7). They should teach God’s Word to their children, diligently, patiently, clearly and lovingly. They should teach them Bible verses and Bible stories little by little and also teach them how to pray for everything, how to use the Word of God in their conversation and activity. Besides in their talk also they should use the Word of God frequently.
In many homes children hear more of the worldly things on TV than the Word of God through their parents. Do not have a TV in your house. By having one, your children will be tempted to watch dirty and bad programmes. Generally parents say that they themselves do not like to have one but the children like it. In this way the parents become the enemies of their own children. Gradually the children get many evil suggestions and ideas, right in their early age. They begin to love worldly stories and worldly music. Afterwards they do not have hunger for God’s Word.
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates” (vs.8,9). All movements and all plans should be made according to the Word of God and children should be taught the Word of God from their early age.
