Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it.

What is the highest form of parenting? What is great parenting? Is it training a child to do well in school? Or …have a high paying career? Is it training a child to have successful careers and marraiges and large families? Is it training a child to attend church and not live a sinful life? To be generous?, to be disciplined?

All of these are noble things to teach a child but there is something higher that these all fit into, if we really understand Jesus Christ. Training up a child in the way mentioned in the above Proverbs reference was referring to the superlative way. Then Jesus Christ said ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father except by me.’ Jesus changed all things,

Now, Jesus Christ is the way that all children are to be trained in.

Not the things mentioned in the first paragraph. Those things may or may not be a part of the way of Jesus Christ, for a particular child.

The highest form of parenting is training a child in the way of following and always seeking first Jesus Christ. And seeking him with every fiber of the being, seeking him in living pure, seeking him in understanding him, seeking him in life’s every situation. The measure of success is a person who seeks first Jesus Christ in all things. It is not a measure of financial status. Or career success, or having widespread influence.

Jesus Christ is a Path

Jesus Christ is a path, He not only is a path, he is the path planned for humanity as created. He is a path down which to travel for life. Jesus Christ is much greater than we can possible imagine or express verbally or in writing.

Jesus is the foundation for the superlative human life, as planned for Adam and Eve before the beginning. Jesus is not merely a religious idea for getting into heaven, or an option for Sunday activities.

He is THE way our children should go, PERIOD, and if we are able we should train our children to go on along that way..