Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 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. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Deut 6:5-9 (NIV)
Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalms 34:11 (NIV)
God has made parents responsible for teaching their children. Much too often, parents abdicate this responsibility to schools, the church, or other family members. More important than teaching reading, writing, mathmatics, the arts or any number of other subjects, is teaching our children to fear the Lord. All other knowledge is for the purpose of glorifying God. All other "subjects" learned should support what children are learning about God. In science, we learn about God's magnificient creation and we study history to learn about God's hand in human events. Of course, our children must learn to read in order to read & study the Bible.
The church is to support what you teach your children about God. It is not the job of your child's sunday school teacher, youth minister or paster to teach your child everything they know about God. It is their job to support you as a parent and to reinforce what you have taught.
God's command and a parents delight is in teaching their children about God every day in everything they do. We can ignore their spiritual education and the children can suffer the eternal consequences or we can make God's command our first priority and glory to see our children in heaven one day.
Do not judge your sucess as a parent by the worldly success of your children. It is time we as parents put God's word first in our families. If we are obedient to His commands, then there is no way we can fail our children.
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