Training Your Child

When God gives us children, He gives us the responsibility of training them properly.  Our goal is to train our children to control themselves.  In school he or she will have to respond properly to authority.  He or she will need to be able to sit still for awhile and focus on their tasks.  As an adult, he or she will have to go to work when he or she doesn't feel like it.  You can ask, what will this behavior look like in 6 months if I let it go on?  What will it look like when he or she is 12, 15 or 18 years of age?

The bible instructs us as parents, to train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.  (Proverbs 22:6) 

Parents ultimately, God's ways are best.

God instructs our children to honor us......

Exodus 20:12 "honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you".
Ephesians 6:2 "honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise".

God also tells us as parents that we should teach our children daily.....

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 "and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up".

Proverbs 10:1 "a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother".


Train Up A Child

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The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32 talks about the story of the Prodigal son.  Are you familiar with this story of the bible? 

Jesus tells this story of a man who has two sons.  The youngest son asks his father for his portion of his inheritance.  Once he received it, the son promptly sets off to begin a self destructive life pattern.  After the money runs out, he faced a severe famine and found himself in dire circumstances.  Finally, the young man came to his senses and returned home. 

After reading this story, here are some questions to reflect on.

1.  Who are you in this story? 
2.  Are you a prodigal son, a pharisee or a servant?
3.  Are you the rebellious son, lost and far from God?
4.  Are you the self-righteous pharisee, no longer capable of rejoicing when a sinner returns to God?
5.  Maybe you've hit rock-bottom, come to your senses and decided to rn to God's open arms of compassion and mercy?
6.  Or are you one of the servants in the household, rejoicing with the father when a lost son finds his way home?

Train Up A Child

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