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Daily Family Worship Yields Precious Results, Nobember 4
Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep
and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and
the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 7:12
, NKJV.
For some reason many parents dislike to give their children religious instruction,
and they leave them to pick up in Sabbath school the knowledge which it is their
privilege and duty to impart. Such parents fail to fulfill the responsibility laid upon
them, to give their children an all-around education. God commands His people to
bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord....
Parents, let the instruction you give your children be simple, and be sure that it
is clearly understood. The lessons that you learn from the Word you are to present
to their young minds so plainly that they cannot fail to understand. By simple
lessons drawn from the Word of God and their own experience, you may teach
them how to conform their lives to the highest standard. Even in childhood and
youth they may learn to live thoughtful, earnest lives that will yield a rich harvest
of good.
In every Christian home God should be honored by the morning and evening
sacrifices of prayer and praise. Children should be taught to respect and reverence
the hour of prayer. It is the duty of Christian parents, morning and evening, by
earnest prayer and persevering faith, to make a hedge about their children.
In the church at home the children are to learn to pray and to trust in God.
Teach them to repeat God’s law. Concerning the commandments the Israelites were
instructed: “Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up” (
Deuteronomy 6:7
).
Come in humility, with a heart full of tenderness, and with a sense of the
temptations and dangers before yourselves and your children; by faith bind them to
the altar, entreating for them the care of the Lord. Train the children to offer their
simple words of prayer. Tell them that God delights to have them call upon Him.
Will the Lord of heaven pass by such homes and leave no blessing there? Nay,
verily. Ministering angels will guard the children who are thus dedicated to God.
They hear the offering of praise and the prayer of faith, and they bear the petitions
to Him who ministers in the sanctuary for His people, and offers His merits in their
behalf.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 109, 110
.
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