As children grow and mature, they enter a significant stage of development, marked by physical, emotional, and spiritual changes. The apostle Paul reminds us that childish ways must eventually give way to maturity, as he writes in 1 Corinthians. In 1 Thessalonians, believers are encouraged to live a life of purity and self-control, while Ephesians emphasizes the importance of parental guidance and instruction during these formative years. The book of Proverbs offers wisdom on training children in the ways of the Lord, providing a foundation for a lifetime of faith and obedience.
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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of 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 reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?