{"id":5238,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/watching-and-learning\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:21","slug":"watching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/watching-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Ephesians 6:1-4<\/p>\n<p> Fathers, &#8230; bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.  &#8212; Ephesians 6:4<\/p>\n<p>I was browsing in a used book shop when an irate customer stormed in and loudly demanded a refund.  When the man couldn&#8217;t get what he wanted, he began swearing at the clerk.  He continued the tirade for several minutes as a girl of 7 or 8 stood passively at his side.  Eventually he stomped out of the store, cursing as he went, with the little girl following close behind.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered if the girl was his daughter.  If so, what did she learn from her dad that afternoon?  More important, the event caused me to ask, &#8220;What does my daughter learn from me at home and all the places we go together?&#8221;  She learns a lot more from watching my behavior than from all my little talks about life and God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fathers,&#8221; the Bible says, &#8220;do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord&#8221; (Ephesians 6:4).  This speaks to me of my own relationship with Christ and the example I live before my children.  Only as I submit to God&#8217;s training and instruction can I bring up my children in His way.<\/p>\n<p>There are children watching us today, deciding what to believe about life and God.  What are they learning from us? &#8212; DCM<\/p>\n<p>      No written word nor spoken plea<br \/>\n      Can teach young hearts what they should be,<br \/>\n      Nor all the books upon the shelves,<br \/>\n      But what the teachers are themselves. &#8212; Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Actions speak louder than words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Ephesians 6:1-4 Fathers, &#8230; bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. &#8212; Ephesians 6:4 I was browsing in a used book shop when an irate customer stormed in and loudly demanded a refund. When the man couldn&#8217;t get what he wanted, he began swearing at the clerk. He continued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[338,228,2056],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}