Train Up
July 22, 2022
“Train Up”
Blessings folk!
Next, one of the greatest promises in the Proverbs.
One to which many cling.
One that many wonder about…especially related to timing.
Still, a promise of the Most High…
Pro 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
ESV
Do not miss the command…the instruction.
We are to “train up” children in the way that they should go.
This is the responsibility of parents.
Parents are THE expeditors of this training.
We are grievously wrong in how we do this today.
Most parents abdicate their role.
The major trainer of most children is a Prussian public school system.
We are bearing the fruit thereof.
When things to not go well, they then turn to “the church”.
They usually want a quick fix.
They will not have trained their children in the ways of the Lord…
They will not have modeled the ways of the Lord…
But, they want “the church” to address things.
When that does not help, they find themselves within the arena of “law enforcement”.
Hear the great promise of the Word.
Train up the child in the way he should go…and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Children who are trained up will not depart from the way.
Rejoice!
Now, one last word.
Examine what it means to “train up”.
It is not religious activity.
It is relationship with the Lord.
Sadly, most think only of religious activity.
Many are they who depart from mandated, imposed religious activity.
Many are they who are seeking true relationship with the Lord.