“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6
It is true that “wisdom is justified of all her children.”
That is, the present generation is the fruit of the older generation. No one can deny this. The adults are to train up the children in the ways that they should go, not the other way around.
This analogy below explains perfectly life’s lessons.
A father started for his office early one morning, after a light fall of snow. Turning he saw his two-year-old boy endeavoring to put his tiny feet in his own great footprints.
The little fellow shouted “Go on, I’se comin’ Papa, I’se comin yight in ure tracks.”
He caught the boy in his arms and carried him to his mother and started again for his office. His habit had been to stop on the way at a saloon for a glass of liquor.
As he stood upon the threshold that morning, he seemed to hear a sweet voice say “Go on, I’se comin’ Papa, I’se comin yight in ure tracks.”
He stopped and hesitated. He looked at the future squarely in the face and said to himself I cannot afford to make any tracks I would be ashamed or sorry to have my boy walk in, and turned away.
Oh, how many times I have seen the adults complain of their own children. Yet, the children are the fruit of their upbringing (Luke 22:6).
This link shows you what becomes of 37 young ladies who leave for college only to be transformed into feminists raised up by their communist professors.
Don’t even deceive yourselves into believing that these young girls were repentant Christians, which 86% of Americans parents would claim (1 John 2:4).
Yet, it works both ways.
On the other hand, if a child is raised up in a godly home and he or she departs from it by walking according to the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2), that is on them, not on the parents.
Samuel, one of the greatest prophets in the Bible, who never let the Lord’s words hit the ground (1 Samuel 3:19), had two sons who did not follow the training that they were raised up under.
Scripture tells us, “And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment” (1 Samuel 8:3).
The good news is that Scripture also teaches us that there was a prodigal son who returned home to his father after he came to himself (Luke 15:17) and realized that he had sinned before Heaven and against his father (Luke 15:18).
If the first example is your case, then you correct yourselves.
If the second example is your case, pray for your children that they may be like the sinner that the angels rejoiced over once they are found (Luke 15:7).
