DAY 149 Read Proverbs 19 through 22.
Today's reading: Another truth that Solomon teaches over and over is the importance of proper parental training.
Memory gem: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).
Thought for today:
William Cady tells about a visit his mother made with her three small children out to the farm of Uncle John and Aunt Sarah. The greatest wonder of the many the little boy saw there was a square bottle containing an apple much larger than the neck of the bottle. He couldn't figure it out, so he took it to Aunt Sarah and asked her about it. She said, "Ask Uncle John; he did it." So he carried the bottle to Uncle John, who looked at it thoughtfully, then into the boy's eyes, and said, "Someday, Willie, you will know!" And all Willie's begging could get no more from him.
The next summer Willie was determined to learn the secret, and he spent hours searching the whole farm. Finally in the orchard he found another bottle fastened to a limb, with a little apple growing in it. He ran and told Uncle John that he had found out his secret. "Yes," he said, "I put it in there when it was little--and it stayed."
The best time to get people into the kingdom of God is when they are young. Professed Christian mother, are you working at this--or are you too busy? With the father, you share the apostolic command concerning the children, to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).
Thousands of children are now practically parentless, because so many mothers are working. But we must not neglect the work God has given us as parents. Don't expect the judge to teach your child obedience--you must teach him if he ever learns it. The earliest years are the most important.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Proverbs 21:14. "Plowing"--better; light, or prosperity.
Proverbs 21:18. "Ransom"--not in the sense of payment. Rather, the idea is that the trouble from which the righteous are saved will come upon those who refuse salvation.
Today's reading: Another truth that Solomon teaches over and over is the importance of proper parental training.
Memory gem: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).
Thought for today:
William Cady tells about a visit his mother made with her three small children out to the farm of Uncle John and Aunt Sarah. The greatest wonder of the many the little boy saw there was a square bottle containing an apple much larger than the neck of the bottle. He couldn't figure it out, so he took it to Aunt Sarah and asked her about it. She said, "Ask Uncle John; he did it." So he carried the bottle to Uncle John, who looked at it thoughtfully, then into the boy's eyes, and said, "Someday, Willie, you will know!" And all Willie's begging could get no more from him.
The next summer Willie was determined to learn the secret, and he spent hours searching the whole farm. Finally in the orchard he found another bottle fastened to a limb, with a little apple growing in it. He ran and told Uncle John that he had found out his secret. "Yes," he said, "I put it in there when it was little--and it stayed."
The best time to get people into the kingdom of God is when they are young. Professed Christian mother, are you working at this--or are you too busy? With the father, you share the apostolic command concerning the children, to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).
Thousands of children are now practically parentless, because so many mothers are working. But we must not neglect the work God has given us as parents. Don't expect the judge to teach your child obedience--you must teach him if he ever learns it. The earliest years are the most important.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Proverbs 21:14. "Plowing"--better; light, or prosperity.
Proverbs 21:18. "Ransom"--not in the sense of payment. Rather, the idea is that the trouble from which the righteous are saved will come upon those who refuse salvation.
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