How will it help children if their parents are honest?ĩ Parents can learn from this important Bible principle: “Do you, however, the one teaching someone else, not teach yourself? You, the one preaching, ‘Do not steal,’ do you steal?” ( Romans 2:21) Children know when their parents say one thing but do another. ( Genesis 43:12 Judges 11:30-40 John 18:3-11) These examples can help children to understand the value of honesty.ĩ. It contains bad examples of people who were dishonest: Achan, who became a thief Gehazi, who lied in order to get money and Judas, who stole money and later betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins.- Joshua 6:17-19 7:11-25 2 Kings 5:14-16, 20-27 Matthew 26:14, 15 John 12:6.Ĩ The Bible also contains many good examples of people who were honest: Jacob, who urged his sons to return the money they had found Jephthah and his daughter, who kept a promise to God and Jesus, who was honest even in difficult situations. Parents can use the Bible to teach them this. How can you use the Bible to teach children the value of honesty?ħ Children also need to learn that honesty is important. ( Psalm 139:23, 24) We remember that “Jehovah detests a devious person, but His close friendship is with the upright.”- Proverbs 3:32.īe quick to reject anything that could weaken your marriageħ, 8. We can ask Jehovah in prayer to examine us and help us see our flaws so that we can correct them. ( Lamentations 3:40 Haggai 1:5) Prayer also helps us to see ourselves as we really are. So we need to use the Bible to look at ourselves honestly. ) But if we tell ourselves that we do not have any flaws, then we cannot make the necessary improvements. We learn what changes we need to make in the way we think, act, and speak. The Bible can help us to know both our strengths and our weaknesses. When we read the Bible, we can see who we are on the inside. What can help us to avoid deceiving ourselves?ĥ When we look in a mirror, we can see what we look like on the outside. ( Revelation 3:17) We too could deceive ourselves about the kind of person we really are.Ĥ The disciple James explained: “If any man thinks he is a worshipper of God but does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he is deceiving his own heart, and his worship is futile.” ( James 1:26) We would be deceiving ourselves if we thought that as long as we did some good things, God would not care if we were rude or sarcastic or if we told lies.
In the first century, brothers in the congregation of Laodicea fooled themselves into thinking that they were pleasing God when in reality they were not. (a) How could we be dishonest with ourselves? (b) What will help us to be honest with ourselves?ģ To be honest with others, we must first be honest with ourselves.
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