TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD 1
Memorise: Train up a child in the way he
should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverb 22:6
One major undoing of Morden civilised society is an
abounding generation of untrained children. This trend did not just start, but
has been on for some time now. The result is that many untrained children of
few years back have become parents themselves. It is the multiplier effect of
their lack of proper home training that is now being experienced in the
society. Home training is a moral training by which such virtues as honesty,
diligence, respect for elders and also some abilities cum skills – such as care
of the body, cooking etc are inculcated into children. You will observe that
the children of these days have no respect for older ones except in some few
cases where parents are not too busy to give attention to the training of their
children.
The Bible clearly shows that some children have cut
their lives short for being rude to people who are old enough to be their
parents (2 Kings 2;23-24), hence time and energy must be invested by parents
into their children to forstall such. What about the area of marriage? Some
ladies have everything going fine for them but have failed in the area of
marriage. They are beautiful, highly educated and have good jobs, but they lack
some basic housekeeping and home making skills like preparing good food. Such
demeanour have pushed their husbands into the hands of other women who can do
better, thus they lose martial joy and peace which often results into a total
collapse of the marriage. In many cases, the wedding day was full of all pomp
and pageantry, the officiating pastor would have preached from his heart a
message such as: “Keys to a happy Home”, he also would have prayed his heart
out at the occasion. But all this ought to be on the foundation that should
have been laid a long time earlier. Psalm 11:3 chiefly sums up such cases.
Rather than orientation their children into godliness
through godly conversation at home as Deuteronomy 11:18-19 commands, some
Christian only engaged themselves with worldly counsels and jokes. Our memory
verse says train up your child in the way he should go and when he is old, he
will not depart from it. God knows better than we do. He did not say wait until
these children become old, but rather from their infancy we need to begin to
train them up in the godly way so that their tomorrow would be bright. God says
in Deuteronomy 11:19& 21 that what you teach your children when you are
with them at home will determine how God will respond to them.
Prayer point
Pray that the eyes of parents will be
open to see the evil of not training their children and that God will touch the
heart of our youths to live godly lives.
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