How Is It With Our Children?

Deuteronomy 12:25 KJV
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:28 KJV
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 11:21 KJV
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Once in chapter eleven and twice in this chapter I find this same concern of the Lord. What goes with us will almost surely go with our children too.

If we observe to do what is right with the Lord the likelihood is that our children will as well. But if we begin to compromise; if we follow after only some of what God chooses and live much of what we please, then we can expect that it will not go so well for us and certainly not for our children.

• We see that fleshed out in Israel today; a people who are nothing like the promises God made them.
• We see it too among many Christians whose walk with God is not wholly for the Lord, they are not seeing their kids growing up to follow Christ.

 The reason so many are leaving the church after reaching adulthood is not because of what they learned at church but because of what they learned at home. The fault of the church is that it has too long tolerated half hearted Christianity as being the real thing (probably because that keeps them in the church and that keeps them giving) and not insisting that true faith always leads to true godliness.