g<\/a>]\u00a0will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.\u00a026\u00a0For\u00a0what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or\u00a0what shall a man give in return for his soul?\u00a027\u00a0For the Son of Man is going to come with\u00a0his angels in the glory of his Father, and\u00a0then he will repay each person according to what he has done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWhen my sons were young children, even as toddlers, I used to stress to them that nothing is more important for their lives then Jesus.\u00a0 I, pretty much daily, told them that loving and serving Jesus is by far the most important things in their lives.\u00a0 They were taught that with Jesus they have everything and without Him they have nothing.\u00a0 I would often quiz them asking them what was most important in their lives and they would respond \u201cJesus.\u201d\u00a0 Now they are men and they remember the lesson that the Holy Spirit grew within them.\u00a0 I thank the Lord that they would still tell you the same.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Teach our children and grandchildren, as often as possible about Jesus.\u00a0 They must know from the beginning His great love for us and what He has done for us.\u00a0 Jesus Himself is who we must know, love and serve and teach them when they\u2019re young and it\u2019ll be bedrock for the rest of their lives.\u00a0 Glory to God!<\/p>\n
Proverbs 22:6 <\/strong>\u201cStart\u00a0children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 16:24-28 \u201cThen Jesus told his disciples,\u00a0\u201cIf anyone would come after me, let him\u00a0deny himself and\u00a0take up his cross and follow me.\u00a025\u00a0For\u00a0whoever would save his life[g]\u00a0will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.\u00a026\u00a0For\u00a0what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[101,88],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-matthew","tag-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}