Joshua 4:21

It is very important to God that the parents teach their children about God.  God made that clear in today’s reading.

Joshua 4:21 ^ESV

And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in times to come,
'What do these stones mean?'

 

The most famous passage where this principle is taught is:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ^ESV

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. ⁵ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to 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. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

 

Two more (of the many are found in the Psalms:

Psalm 22:30-31 ^ESV

Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
³¹ they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.

 

Psalm 78:4 ^ESV

We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD,

and his might, and the wonders that he has done.

 

Here’s the point, when we teach our children about the God we experience, they are able to trust Him because we trust Him. By God’s grace, as they grow they will have their own experiences with God thereby knowing Him: and of course, as they know Him better they will therefore love Him and trust Him more.  Praise Jesus!

 

Thank You Father for my children.

Thank You Son for saving my boys.

Thank You Spirit that You are already moving in them.

 

Loving God and my children along with you,

Pastor Greg