Teaching Your Children

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:5-7 This passage provides the central theme of Deuteronomy. It sets a pattern that helps us relate the Word of God to our daily lives. We are to love God, think constantly about His commandments, teach His commandments to our children, and live each day by the guidelines in His Word. God emphasized the importance of parents' teaching the Bible to their children. The church and schools cannot be used to escape this responsibility. Do you ever wonder what is wrong with our children today? We have relied too much on our schools and paid too little attention to the other influences in our children's lives, such as television, music and even their friends, who many times have more of an impact in changing and shaping their world view than we do. The Bible provides so many opportunities for object lessons and practical teaching that it would be a shame to study it only one day a week. Our kids need to know that there is such a thing as Absolute Truth: what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, and it has nothing to do with what you "feel is right for you," or "what's right for me is not necessarily right for everyone else." That's called Individualism and that is the biggest lie of the modern age. Eternal truths are most effectively learned in the loving environment of a God-fearing home. Teach your children well. God Bless you, J.H.