Lords Helpers

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

God gave us a responsibility toward our children. Not only are we to supply their needs, but we are also to train them. Training involves all areas of life, especially the spiritual areas. If we do not teach our children about God and Jesus Christ – someone else will train them in spiritual things. Why? Because there comes a time in a child’s life when they become curious about such things.

Do you want your child learning witchcraft or satanism instead of Christian values and about God? I hope your answer to that question was no. They will learn about those things eventually, but as long as we as Christians have trained them in Godly things first – they will not be tricked and lead astray (away from God) by evil and wicked people.

Believe me there are wicked and evil people out there that are just waiting to be able to trick your child and bring them into their evil and perverted religions. That is why it is so important that we train our children first – teach them how to beware of those people and the things they will offer them.

God says that if we train our children while they are young, that training will stick with them the rest of their lives. You can never start too young teaching children Godly values and about Jesus Christ. Read the Bible to them while they are still in the womb. They will hear you. That is not a fetus – that is a child inside of a woman! Continue that training after they are born. Continue to teach them through their adolescence and teenage years.

I remember when my youngest daughter was in high school. She went to school all day, came home for an hour or so, then went to work at a quick food restaurant. We allowed her to take the job because the business said they would not work her past 10:00 PM. After she had worked for a while, it became later and later. The child was exhausted when she came home.

At that time, we had a schedule that she and I had started before that where every evening we would together read five chapters of the Bible. Well, after she took that job, she was too tired to read. Did that stop me? No. I would do all the reading of those five chapters. Eventually, it was so late when she got home and she was exhausted. We talked about her quitting, but she was never a quitter. So, we worked it out. When she arrived home (even if it was midnight), she would jump in the shower, change into her pajamas, and lay down. I would sit on the side of her bed and would read her to sleep. I read the Bible to her and she would fall asleep – sometimes instantly.

I believe that even though she may have been asleep – she was still hearing the words that I read to her from the Bible. I believe that God put His protection around her and helped me to train her. Today, she is a wonderful Christian woman who is now training her two children – boys. She makes sure they go to church and she teaches them at home. She does not leave all the training to the Sunday school teachers and the preacher. She takes her responsibility seriously and I thank God that she does. May God richly bless them.

Until next time,
Linda Sedrick Pearson