Where Does Your Ministry Begin?

"Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."  Joel 1:3


I love to read other devotions from different Christian writers and speakers.  I recently read a devotion by Charles Spurgeon based on this very verse.  I loved what he said --- "To teach our children is a personal duty.  We cannot delegate it to Sunday School teachers" or other aids.  I completely agree.  Too many times parents allow the church and those who volunteer in it to teach their children about the Lord, never taking the time themselves to teach these young minds about what the Lord has done for them as their parents.  Parents have a huge influence over there small children.  As toddlers and young children, parents are like super heroes.  These years are most important, and we should never allow others to teach our children what we should be teaching them ourselves.  Don't think that you are alone in this belief because Charles Spurgeon declared, "he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home."  Each and every one of us should invest time and interest into teaching our children about the Lord so that they can, in turn, teach their own children one day.  How can we expect our children to understand a personal relationship with God if we don't show them our own when they are young?