3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Timothy knew the Holy Scriptures from his childhood.

He was taught them, not by Clergymen, but by his grandmother and mother, now that's love!

2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

We are commanded to teach the testimony of God to our children.

It is not enough to preserve the deposit of truth in a book, and tell them it is there.

We are commanded to teach it.

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

We can make ourselves teach our children, but we cannot make them know.

Knowing is a precious thing.

The kind of knowing God has in mind here is more than mere memory or raw mental awareness.

Knowing is seeing into the real beauty of truth and embracing it for the treasure that it is.

John 8:31-32

31) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free

Parents cannot make that happen.

We can do our best in putting God in the center and loving and praying and teaching.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

But in the end there is a chasm between teaching and knowing that only God can carry our children across.

Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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