Training Your Children to Love God’s Word: 1 Key Practice
As parents, especially as dads, it’s important that we train our children to love God’s Word. Here’s the single greatest way I know how to do this:
Show your children every single week of their lives that YOU love God’s Word.
Chances are high that your children will gain a love and appetite for God’s Word if they grow up observing YOUR consistent and highly visible love, delight, hunger, passion, and desire for knowing and enjoying God through the Scriptures.
Start this practice early. Forge good habits now.
- When your son is one week old, hold him as you read your Bible.
- When your home is wild and noisy with two boys under the age of two, consider not escaping to a hidden corner of the home, but instead having your daily time in the Word somewhere within your kids’ line of sight.
- When your kids are too young to understand what you’re saying, still tell them what you’re discovering/learning, what you’re excited about, from your time in the Word.
Show your children every single week of their lives that YOU love God’s Word.
My dad did this, and it was a HUGE thing in my life. It was because of him that I started reading through the Bible as a whole when I was in 8th grade. Good insight! I would add that for dad’s, memorizing scripture and sharing it with your kids is a great option. My dad helped (and still helps) with a program called, AWANA, a program to help kids memorize scripture. Since he was a leader, he learned the same verses. Good stuff. Powerful. Life changing.
According to the picture you posted: Show your children every single week of their lives that YOU love Coffee.
Danny, yup, that’s extremely important too. The key is showing them a love for Peet’s coffee.
I had my daughter reading the bible to me…She was kind of slow though
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Seriously: Great advice! Thanks.
Secondly: Are you wearing a blanket?
It’s a bathrobe, a masculine bathrobe…
That is definitely a bathrobe… my wife has that same one.
Thank you for sharing this aspect of your life. I struggle knowing my son will be born seperated from God. I pray as a father I can show him God’s love for mankind.