Deuteronomy 6 is wonderfully descriptive of the parenting role. Verses 6–9 frame the daily instruction parents are to give their children in God’s ways.
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:6–9, NIV)
Notice that the parents’ role is that of instruction. The instruction is heartfelt. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
We cannot impress our children with the beauty and symmetry of God’s direction for our lives unless we have been moved by the beauty and suitability of God’s law for our own lives. Legalistic application of God’s law in our own Christian experience will ring like a cracked bell in our children’s ears. They will resist God’s law as restrictive and oppressive.
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