Preparing Children for Their Future

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Our ladies Bible class studied patience yesterday morning. Near the end of class, the teacher asked a question: “Does the Bible say anything about training children?”

The Bible does have several specific teachings about training children, including:

You shall therefore take these words of mine to heart and to soul;
and you shall tie them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead.
You shall also teach them to your sons,
speaking of them when you sit in your house,
when you walk along the road, when you lie down,
and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:18-19

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.
Proverbs 22:6

Correct your son, and he will give you comfort;
He will also delight your soul.
Proverbs 29:17

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger,
but bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not antagonize your children,
so that they will not become discouraged.
Colossians 3:21

When I heard the question in class yesterday morning, I thought about passages like those, but I also realized that the entire Bible teaches us how to train children. As the passage in Deuteronomy 11 tells us, we are to take God’s word to heart and soul and teach it to our children. Therefore, all of God’s Word—the entire Bible—teaches us how to train children. To be prepared to be the adults we want our children to be, they need to know how God wants them to live. No one knows better than He does.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you
in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 
for His divine power has granted to us
everything pertaining to life and godliness,
through the true knowledge of Him
who called us by His own glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:2-3

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