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.