We trained these spider lillies to grow all around this tree. How did we do that? We planted them there. Will they ever move away? No...they will die someday, but as long as they live, those plants will be around that tree, unless someone digs them up and moves them.
If we plant our children around God and His Word...and train them properly there, that is where they will stay. There are some who... will want to move them away from that but, unlike these moveable flowers, if they are trained properly... they will have learned to love God so much, that they will not want to stray from Him.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 And the result is "....they WILL not depart from it." I'd rather have a "will not" than a 'can not" any day! I think God had too...that's why he didn't make us robots. He will not over-ride our free will, but it is the 'will' of our children that God wants us to train!
If we plant our children around God and His Word...and train them properly there, that is where they will stay. There are some who... will want to move them away from that but, unlike these moveable flowers, if they are trained properly... they will have learned to love God so much, that they will not want to stray from Him.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 And the result is "....they WILL not depart from it." I'd rather have a "will not" than a 'can not" any day! I think God had too...that's why he didn't make us robots. He will not over-ride our free will, but it is the 'will' of our children that God wants us to train!
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