Teach the Source of True Happiness {a devotional}
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6.
By
their neglect to exercise proper restraint, many parents are creating
great unhappiness for their children. The youth who are left to
constantly seek for pleasure in amusement or selfish gratification are
not happy, and never can be happy while following this course. Fathers
and mothers, teach your children that the only way to be truly happy is
to love and fear God; and enforce the lesson by your example. Let them
see that the peace of Christ is ruling in your heart, and that His love
pervades your life.
Will
you consecrate your own hearts to God, that you may exert a sanctifying
influence upon your children? Will you separate them from sin and
sinners, and by living faith connect them with God? It should be the
work of every parent to cultivate all that is good, and true, and noble
in his children. It is his duty to correct their faults, to restrain
their waywardness....
Make
the Word of God your guide in the education of your children, ever
considering what will be for their future good.... The mother may bestow
upon her daughters an education that will be invaluable, by training
them to bear their share of the family burdens. The father may give his
sons a capital of more worth than gold or lands, by teaching them to
love useful employment, instead of seeking happiness in idle amusements
or dissipation. Parents, now is the time to form in your children habits
of industry, self-reliance, and self-control; to cultivate economy and
business tact. Now is the time to teach them courtesy and benevolence
toward their fellow men, and reverence and love for God.... Home should
be the most sunny and attractive spot on earth; and it may be made such
by pleasant words and kind acts, and, underlying all, a steadfast
adherence to the right....
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