Bible Text: Prov. 22:6. “Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.”
Material wealth in terms of real estate properties, assorted vehicles, financial wealth or such intangible properties like education are all good assets that parents ought to leave behind for their children when they leave this world. However, these legacies will hardly last after the giver’s exit from this planet. Therefore, the greatest asset of everlasting value is to teach our children to know their Creator. When a child fears the Lord, (Prov. 1:7), the child will leave the congregation of fools and the Lord will pour upon him the Holy Spirit who will guide him in all things including his footsteps.
Parents cannot train a child correctly except they themselves are submissive to the Lord. The greatest way to train a child is to begin to speak the word of God to their lives even from when they are in the womb. When the child arrives, family altar is indispensable if the child will begin his or her life on a right footing. Not only this, physical demonstration of our love for Christ should be seen by the child by way of taking the child to the house of the Lord is regularly. Teaching the child what the Bible says always is another important direction for parents to follow. Use the word of God to pre-empt the foreseeable errors the child can commit and when an error is actually committed, mirror the child’s error with the word of God so he can see clearly where he has gone wrong and know how to soft-pedal. We use this approach a lot in our family to give our children proper bearing in life. We are never afraid whether our children after, leaving us can join an anti-social group because the Holy Spirit is indwelling in them who will always point the way to them. We never had the fear that our children could disobey us because they know that we as the parents would not disobey God nor disobey our own parents. We have no fear that our children will excel wherever they go because we know that God will always give them directions to follow and so on.
A stage will surely come in the child’s life, if thoroughly and correctly guided by the word of God, that he will be weaned spiritually and become directly led by the Holy Spirit. Whosoever is led by the Holy Spirit cannot make silly mistakes because the Holy Spirit will always guide him.
Fellow parents, let’s commit the ways of our children unto the Lords hands as they are exposed to the temporal things of this world. Let them have the right teaching from the on-set that it is good to have material, financial and other wealth but that the greatest legacy we can give them is to know God and follow His precepts.
Prayer point: Father, help me to prepare my children’s mind towards knowing You in Jesus name.
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