"Train Up" Your Child

The well-known Proverb that says, "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he shall not depart from it" (Pr. 22:6), is commonly misinterpreted and dismissed as being a general rule that does not universally apply in all circumstances or to all children. Rightly understood however to mean to consecrate or to DEDICATE your children to serve the Lord, the Proverb has far more permanent and eternal results. Our primary duty as parents is not merely to produce compliant children that will perform and obey on command -- but instead to lead our children to the cross and to the knowledge of the Savior -- so that they will obey from the heart.