Deuteronomy 11:18-19
You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.
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A very major part of what Jesus called the foremost command relates to the training of children in the ways of the Lord, just as seen in our Scripture for today. Those children are a gift from the Lord {Ps.127:3} and, as with everything that the Lord entrusts us with, parents are responsible for and will answer for! The Word does not suggest, but rather commands: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” {Pro.22:6}

How then did it come to be that, at least here in the western world, we turn our youth over to schools that teach children the ways of the world, supported with Facebook and Twitter and all of the social media of the Internet? Those, rather than the words of God, are certainly what seem to be shaping the thinking of the people—young and old—today. In spite of the fact that the Lord commanded that we, adult and child alike, are not to learn the ways of the world. {Jer.10:2} Children are sent off each day to go to government run schools that teach what the world believes and thinks—and it is ungodly to the core!

John Dunphy, an award winning writer, wrote in the January-February 1983 edition of the movement’s magazine, the Humanist, “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being.” And “Utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level–preschool day care or large state university.”

Family life in the western world generally seems to be dead or dying! Parents and children only rarely even eating a meal together, barely sharing their lives together. But with that said, Jesus is experienced at raising the dead. Like Lazarus when we are called by name from the darkness of the tomb we need to 'come forth' and into His marvelous light. {Jn.11:43} It is all too easy to make excuses! But remember, as I have often said, ’Excuses are the fiery arrows shot from the pits of hell to kill repentance!’ {bbY}

I believe that we might all be better off if we were to just find and listen to Willie Nelson sing a song that he wrote in the late 1950's called 'Family Bible’—more to the point and more valuable than so much of what is taught now. It is a great 'sermon' to anybody who understands the message and has a willing heart.

Consider this warning from the very Word of God:
"See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;” (Colossians 2:8-10)

GOD’S WORDS ARE LIFE TO ALL WHO FIND THEM