Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it."
Here's Charles Swindoll's commentary on this scripture from his book Parenting From Surviving to Thriving.
This verse in most biblical manuals has a standard interpretation that goes something like this: "Rear your children as moral, upright, God-fearing, churchgoing kids. Be sure they carry a Bible to church, attend lots of Sunday school classes, and each summer attend Christian camps. Enforce your rules and regulations with consistency and discipline. Make sure they learn the Ten commandments, the Golden Rule, and several key verses of Scripture. Teach them to pray, and be sure they come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. After all, they're eventually going to sow their wild oats as they are certain to rebel. They'll live in that rebellious lifestyle for a while, then, once their oats are sown and they tire of their fling with the wild side of life-when they're old and decrepit-they'll come back to the Lord...but only if you raised them right!"
He thens shares the Hebrew origin of the scripture and ends with this paraphrase of this proverb with the translations in mind: "Cultivate a thirst, initiate a hunger, create an appetite for spiritual things in the lives of children of any age, as long as they are living under your roof, and do it in keeping with they way they are bent-disciplining the disobedience and the evil while affirming and encouraging the good, the artistic, the beautiful. As children begin to grow into adults, theirs paths will be aimed directly toward the Savior, and they will continue to walk in His sovereignty."
Here's Charles Swindoll's commentary on this scripture from his book Parenting From Surviving to Thriving.
This verse in most biblical manuals has a standard interpretation that goes something like this: "Rear your children as moral, upright, God-fearing, churchgoing kids. Be sure they carry a Bible to church, attend lots of Sunday school classes, and each summer attend Christian camps. Enforce your rules and regulations with consistency and discipline. Make sure they learn the Ten commandments, the Golden Rule, and several key verses of Scripture. Teach them to pray, and be sure they come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. After all, they're eventually going to sow their wild oats as they are certain to rebel. They'll live in that rebellious lifestyle for a while, then, once their oats are sown and they tire of their fling with the wild side of life-when they're old and decrepit-they'll come back to the Lord...but only if you raised them right!"
He thens shares the Hebrew origin of the scripture and ends with this paraphrase of this proverb with the translations in mind: "Cultivate a thirst, initiate a hunger, create an appetite for spiritual things in the lives of children of any age, as long as they are living under your roof, and do it in keeping with they way they are bent-disciplining the disobedience and the evil while affirming and encouraging the good, the artistic, the beautiful. As children begin to grow into adults, theirs paths will be aimed directly toward the Savior, and they will continue to walk in His sovereignty."
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