Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
The father is the priest of his household.”You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7) & (Exodus 12:3). However, where the father is absent or the father is a non-believer, the responsibility would fall on the mother to teach the Word of God and guide the children in the ways of the Lord. Timothy’s father was Greek and a non-believer hence his mother Lois and his grandmother Eunice imparted knowledge and instilled the fear of God in him (2 Timothy 1:5).
The Lord God warned through Prophet Hosea that He had rejected the priests as they had rejected His Word. The fear of the Lord had jaded away in Israel. They brought idols into the temple and desecrated the house of the Lord. They twisted the truth to suit their convenience and ignored the precepts that corrected them.Hence the Lord said that He will disregard their generation. The protection of the Lord was lifted when the Word of God left their hearts.
The Bible has been removed from schools and parliaments in many modern secular societies. The right to preach the Word has been lost in many parts of the world. Hence the responsibility to pass on knowledge and teach the Word of God rests on the parents. The parents are the ordained priests for the Lord.
Responsibilities of the Priests:
1. Train: Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). Training should begin in early childhood, not during the teenage years.
2. Talk: Small talks around the dinner table should inculcate Biblical principles. Walks in the parks are a perfect time to nurture godly values in children.
3. Testimony: Children learn more from our lifestyle than our lectures. So, we must walk the talk.
We are the priests of our household.
Prayer: Dearest Lord Jesus, help me to train but more so, walk the talk and testify the truth to my family. Amen.
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