🔵 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟒-𝟎𝟗-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐃 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐮 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐤 (𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠)
🔵 Proverbs 22:6 NKJV “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
🔵 Proverbs 22:6 MSG "Educate your children to travel in the way of virtue; even when they’re old, they won’t get lost.”
🔵 The world has reduced parenting to mere babysitting, funding, and transporting. But God declares that parenting is kingdom-building! You are not just raising a child; you are directly responsible to the Almighty God for the eternal destiny of a human soul.
🔵 Look at the first word: "Train up." The Hebrew word is Chanak (חֲנֹךְ). Do you know what this means? It is the root word for Hanukkah, which means "dedication."
🔵 But it also means to narrow, to initiate, or to palate-train. In ancient times, it was the practice of rubbing a drop of honey or chewed food on a newborn’s palate so that when they tasted the sweet mother’s milk, they would eagerly desire it. Also, to awaken their taste buds and create a lifelong craving for nourishment.
🔵 Do not mistake this for merely sending a child to Sunday School or making them memorize Bible verses.
🔵 Biblical parenting is not just correcting bad behavior; it is initiating a deep, internal, spiritual craving for the things of God!
🔵 You are rubbing the honey of God’s Word on their souls so that when the world offers them poison, their spirit rejects it because they already know the taste of Heaven!
🔵 Parenting is therefore not just discipline; it is initiating your child into a covenant lifestyle. You are narrowing their focus, dedicating them to the Lord, and making the things of God so sweet and desirable that the bitter lies of the world hold no appeal to them!
🔵 That's what Timothy's mother did and it shaped Timothy to become the great bishop his generation ever had as Paul admits in 2 Timothy 3:15 NKJV "and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus".
🔵 In the Name Of Jesus Christ, I pray that we receive the grace to raise our children as the Timothys in their generation.
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