”When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.” | Proverbs 6: 22

These are the words of a father and mother to their children concerning the written Word of God.

This parent, a believer in Christ, is persuaded of the ability of God’s Word, with His blessing to lead, keep, and talk. They would impress this upon their children.

God’s Word shall lead you.

It will LEAD you out of the way “which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” The way of works religion seems right, but man’s works being imperfect will always end in death.

The Word shall lead you to the way, the Lord Jesus Christ that is also the truth and the life, the only way to God.

It shall KEEP you when you sleep. The believer in Christ being reconciled through Him to God is able to lay down and sleep in peace. “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety” (Psalm 4: 8)

It will also TALK to you. God’s word speaks to us as we read and hear it. I don’t know how many times I have been told after a service something to this effect. “God answered my question in your message,” or “You dealt with something in your message that has troubled me.”

I brought a message recently from Proverbs, and could not help but think after the message, “I wish that all of our young families with children had heard this message.” It seemed to me such a shame that they missed it.

Every service that a person misses he cheats himself of necessary food.

He misses that opportunity of hearing God speak to him from that passage.

~ Pastor David Pledger

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