Moses wants the Israelites to take the word of God to heart....He urges them to be dominated by God’s word. He warns them against treating these words as idle, empty words. The words of God are life to the people of God. Parents, this is where it starts. Is the word of God your life? Before you can expect your children to respond to God, you must lead the way by treasuring the words of God as your very life. God’s word is life (Deuteronomy 8:3).
Parenting without this dependence upon the Word will leave you exhausted and your children exasperated. In the next few posts we will look at the contrast between idle words and words of life in parenting. If you are going to effectively shepherd your children, God’s Word must be life to you.
Read the whole post here. It's worth it...and it looks like this is the start of a series.
