Our Children Need To Know God

Our Children Need To Know God “Only be careful and watch yourself closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” Deuteronomy 4:9 Parents have an obligation to their children to teach them about God, and to instill in them good moral family values. Children learn more from their parents, and are influenced more than from any other source. Our children are watching, listening and learning from us every day. A recent statistical study suggests that if neither parent is involved in worship and discipleship, then their children would be ninety-five percent more likely not to participate in either. When the mother alone takes part in worship and discipleship, her children are thirty percent more likely to involve themselves in both of these areas as well. If only the father partakes in worship and discipleship, his children are fifty percent more likely to be involved. However, with both father and mother actively participating in worship and discipleship, their children are eighty-five percent more likely to have the same desire. With these powerful statistics, it is obvious that parents are the key-influencers of their children’s spiritual growth and development. Every Christian family must nurture their children in the ways of God. The big problem in our society however, is that it is difficult to get parents in church to minister to them. This is where many of our churches have lost their focus as they are not getting outside of their church walls to reach the lost. God’s Great Commission is to spread the gospel of Jesus to all the world, and this takes a commitment from every church to go out into their community in every possible venue to spread the word of God; then our society can return to God and our children can be saved. My Daily Devotional Volume III August 12 Robert William Brock, Jr.