The root of our problems…..

Thabiti Anyabwile

Use the Word in Your Parenting

The is much to note in this comment. I would probably say that this is the true root of all the problems we encounter in society today. There are may ways the lack of following this principle plays out in our culture. It’s become pervasive and extreme, but it’s really just this simple.

Psalm 78:5-8

5He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,

6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,

7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;

8 and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.

The Lord God of Heaven graciously provided His word (His “testimony” and “law”) as the foundational strategy and content for our parenting (v. 5). “He commanded our fathers to teach [it] to their children.” We see the same purpose in Deuteronomy 6.

Forgetting God is the most dangerous thing about disobedience.

May the Lord make us faithful in teaching His word to the children He has entrusted to our care. His word does not return void. Let us trust it and use it with our children!