Store Up My Commands
My
son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your
ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for
insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of
the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his
mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds victory in
store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose
walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of
his faithful ones. Then you will understand what is right and just and
fair—every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will
protect you, and understanding will guard you. Wisdom will save you from the
ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, who leave the straight
paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are
devious in their ways.
It will save you also
from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, who has
left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. For
her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None
who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
Thus you will
walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the
upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the
wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Proverbs
2:1-22
Set good standards
for your children and they will carry them into their own generation.
Raising children in
an age of hostility toward the Christian faith is not easy. Parents wonder how
best to help their children trust the Savior and live to please Him. Proverbs indicates that a key to directing children is through
purposeful instruction.
Got kids or grandkids?
It’s never too early to begin instructing them in wise living.
The
character of your children tomorrow depends on what you put into their hearts
today.
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