A The Baptist Deacon

Train up a child.

deaconfarley | April 11, 2008 08:30

Ephesians 6: 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

What are we teaching our children today? There is an article in our local paper this morning with the headline “14 People cited for underage drinking”.  The youngest was 19 years old a legal adult. They were old enough to know the law and to know that they were breaking it because they were underage. You may think well this happens all the time. There are children younger than 18 that have developed drinking and even drug problems. This does not make it right.

Proverbs 22:6 teaches us to train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Children will follow there parents example(s)! How we live before our children will help to mold and shape them into the adults that they will become. It is our responsibility, not the school teacher or the school system. You can send you children to church and they will learn, but as soon as they get old enough they will not return to the church. Take your children and they may still leave, but they will have a better chance of staying because you took them instead of sent them.

I didn’t attend to go this way this morning. I started out to quote Ephesians 6: 1-3 and then tell you about a conversation I had with my children the other night. We talked about obeying your parents for this is right. I stressed that it is right. It seems that I have to have a talk often with my sons because they tend to not listen to there mother. I try to teach them by example but there are times when a bit more is necessary. I have made the statement more than once that when I stepped out of line I was corrected. It was not child abuse even though I might have thought so at the time. There is a difference between correction and child abuse.

The bottom line; it is your responsibility to teach your children. Do not expect the baby sitter, the day care owner, the School system or anyone else to train your children. It is your responsibility! How do you want them to turn out?

May God Bless You!

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