“Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ” (Col. 3:24).
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care then that you train them to obey when they are spoken to—to do as they are bid immediately. We are not made for independence; we are not fit for it. Even Christ’s freemen have a yoke to wear: They serve the Lord Christ (1 Cor. 7:22; Col. 3:24).
Children cannot learn too soon that this is a world in which Christians are not intended to rule and that believers are never in their right place until they know how to obey.
Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long and will wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.
You will see many in this day who allow their children to choose and think for themselves long before they are able, and they even make excuses for their disobedience, as if such a sad thing was something not to be blamed.
To my eyes, a parent always yielding and a child always having its own way is a most painful sight-painful because I see God’s appointed order of things inverted and turned upside down and painful because I feel sure the consequence to that child’s character in the end will be unhappiness, self-will and self-conceit.
“Children, obey” (Eph. 6:1; Col. 3:20).
From Gems From My Reading