Recently my oldest son and I have been having some really neat conversations surrounding the Bible. He just read through the Bible in a year and decided to do it again this year. In addition to that he is reading a couple of different Bible studies written for his age. He came up to me this morning and told me he had a friend who wanted to read one of his books "Weird and Gross Stuff in the Bible". It was really neat to see how excited David was to help Jake. David said, "Dad, maybe this will make Jake want to read through the Bible too." WOW! What an awesome thing to hear your son say.
I tell you that because I need to confess something. Sometime when my son comes to me and asks me Bible questions I get irritated because I am watching TV or reading or trying to take 5 minutes to not think. I don;t want to answer his questions. I want to be lazy. I confess that the one thing I want for David is the one thing I get irritated at. I want him to have a hunger to know Jesus and understand and apply the Bible to his own life and then I get frustrated when he tries.
I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to really listen to David when he asks me Bible questions. I spent some time reading through Deuteronomy 6 where God tells the people who follow God to talk to their kids about faith, to impress upon them the truth of the word of God and to help them grow up with God branded in their lives.
What would happen in your kids' lives if you decided it was not just important, but critical, that you personally spent time each day impressing Biblical things in their life? I think we would give our kids an incredible head start in faith.
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