The Best Adorning - The One Year Daily Wisdom
The Best Adorning
Read Proverbs 1
What you learn from [your parents] will crown you with grace and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Proverbs 1:9
We have some wonderful opportunities to observe the marvels of God’s creation in those educational shows about animals on television. It is interesting to learn how some animals give birth to their babies and then, almost immediately, the babies are off on their own. On the other hand, many animal parents have their young for a few years; they teach them how to hunt and how to stay away from predators—in essence, how to survive.
If God provided such training even in much of the animal kingdom, how important it is for people! God created human families so that parents could train their children. Human parents also give their children “survival” skills—but they do much more by giving spiritual, moral, and emotional training. When parents are a good influence, the children who listen will learn valuable lessons that will straighten and smooth their own road in life. Such parents are giving a great gift to their children—crowning them with grace and adorning them with honor.
A WORD FOR TODAY
Value your parents’ training.
Lord, help me to be the parent you want me to be. May I give my children the kind of instruction that will crown them with grace and adorn them with honor.
