Topic: Home-Grown Saints in Demand [Saturday March 12, 2016]
Text: Proverbs 13:1-6
Key Verse: “A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke” (Proverbs 13:1).
Godly parents are a storehouse of good advice to their children. If such advice comes by the help of the Holy Spirit, they are of immeasurable blessing to the recipient. Even so, the children must be properly nurtured to profit thereby.
The nurturing starts in the home where children are shown tender love, good examples, good prayer life and discipline. Children who find it difficult to obey instructions either at school or in the church must have been indulged at home. Such children grow up being delinquents and a pain to their parents. Dutiful Christian parents can help correct such anomalies. Our text talks about the wise and the foolish sons, the secret of life and some contrasting classes of men. Genuine Christian parents are the most effective teachers of morals and religion in any community.
The influence of parents surpasses that of the teacher in church, school or any other person for that matter. Some parents foul up what the children are taught in the church by their bad examples at home. When their children begin to scoff at morals and doctrines of God’s word, they play the innocent. One wonders why the stream is bitter when we ourselves have poisoned the fountain. It is great to train a child in the way he should go, but it is greater still, if we walk that way ourselves.
We must grow up the children right from home. We must share with them the excitement of our relationship with God. We must establish in every home, the tradition of passing the joy of the Lord from father to child from generation to generation. Pray that every child from your home will be wise unto salvation and become the man or woman God uses.
Thought for the day: The child that is constantly instructed in the Word increases in wisdom.
Bible Reading in one Year: Numbers 16-18
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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