DO YOU DISCUSS GOD’S WORD WITH YOUR CHILDREN?

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Many Christian parents leave the responsibility of teaching God’s Word to their children to the church and the school their kids attend.

These parents give excuse that they are so busy chasing material things with which to take care of their families and so there is very little time to engage in spiritual activities.

Let us examine God’s Word in Deuteronomy 6:5-9, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.

6 And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then]

7 You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.

8 And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.

9 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

The summary of God’s command here is that we should give first priority to His Word and then we, parents, NOT the church or school should teach and impress God’s Word upon the minds of our children and discuss it with them.

The simple reason God says this is because the human mind is the battle field for the devil’s antics and tricks. Once the devil is able to capture a person’s mind whether young or old, he can do whatever he pleases with the person to commit sin against God and end in eternal damnation if the person dies in such state.

However, it is pertinent to note that the mind that is saturated or rooted or implanted or engrafted with God’s Word does not provide any fertile ground for the devil’s antics for capture to do evil.

Since it is a fully established fact that the devil is synonymous with sin and everything evil, let us see how the Bible says a person is tempted and commits sin in James 1:13-16, “Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by [what is] evil and He Himself tempts no one.

14 But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions).

15 Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.

16 Do not be misled, my beloved brethren.”

Again, we can see here that the problem of temptation and sin begins from the mind and ends in actual commission of the act of sin when the person has succumbed to the temptation, given the devil legal right over his mind to do whatever he (devil) pleases.

Dear friend, when you go to a church where parents sit separately from the children to be taught God’s Word, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to engage your children after church at home to know what was taught, what they learnt and if it is consistent with God’s Word.

Of course, you can only know if it is consistent with God’s Word when you are yourself ground in study and meditation of God’s Word.

If you ever discover that your children are being taught the wrong doctrine as far as God’s Word is concerned, please do not keep quiet but take immediate action by reporting it to the pastor and if nothing is done, simply withdraw your children from the class where the wrong doctrine is being taught before you lose them to the devil.

Let the children sit with you to hear God’s Word as it is being taught from the altar.

Take note that verse 16 of James 1 warns us not to be misled. This sounds like a simple warning because ignorance of this warning would certainly lead to dire consequences for you, your children and family.

Take time to train your children in God’s Word and you also lead by example in word and deed because you as a parent are the children’s first teacher they emulate.

Always remember that we would all give account to God as humans, parents, spouses, siblings, children to our parents and for all positions we hold here on earth.


May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Most Righteous Name, Amen.

Gabriel Ama.
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