Bill Fitzhenry's Thoughts For Today…

Reading through the 31 chapters of Proverbs each month can give us an understanding of how to serve God.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV

Proverbs 22

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

This is one of the best known and most misunderstood of the Proverbs – both for what it does not say and what it does say

What it does not do is promise or guarantee conversion of a child who has Christian training, before he dies. Neither is it a proof-text for home-schooling.

What it does do is:

A. Emphasize the importance of childhood ethical and spiritual training on a person’s conduct.

B. Teach that ethical and spiritual conduct is influenced throughout life and the prevention of final apostasy is ordinarily the result of childhood training.

C. The determination of conduct throughout life, “even” into old age is observable in childhood training.

D. Old age ordinarily is no time to expect something different from a lifetime of conduct.