Proverbs - Wise Children

Proverbs 10:1

             The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father:

but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

                        Given the fact that the Lord gave Solomon a “... a wise and an understanding heart;...”.(I King 3:12) we can conclude from this verse that King David would have been a glad father.  Solomon did not receive this wisdom until after David died.  We don’t know if he had regrets about certain choices and heaviness from foolishness in his youth.  Absalom was a foolish son and truly Solomon must have heard of the heartbreak his father had gone through with Absalom. The psalmist prayed, “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. (Ps 25:7) Even if we in our youthfulness brought some heartache to our parents, the Lord is in the business of giving wisdom and we can even now walk according this wisdom and bring joy to our parents.

                        If wisdom makes a glad father and foolishness makes a mother so heavy in heart, then we must take the commission of training our children away from foolishness and into wisdom very seriously.  Do they know about bed times, use of their tongues, financial wisdom, work ethic, entertainment choices, how to submit to authority, how to deliver messages faithfully, etc..?  Have you gone through the Proverbs yourself to gain the wisdom to deliver this to them?  If we leave children to their own, surely as mothers our hearts will be heavy.  Let us ask the Lord today to give us insight and instruction to teach our children in wisdom.