How Important is Your Child’s Education?

November 3, 2025 by

How important?

How important is your child’s education? I am not just referring to his or her schooling, but to the entire nurturing and development of your child. What is the value you place on obeying Eph. 6:4 and Deut. 6:4-7? Every morning, we ought to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “What is important to me? What does all this mean? What will I invest in?”

Every morning, we decide how we will spend the time that is given to us. As you go to wake your child, think about the day before you both. When we look at our children, we are required to make a deliberate and conscientious decision about what is really important to us. At the end of the day, when we lay our head upon the pillow, we ought to reflect upon the day. If we were to catalog our time use, what would our moments reveal about our priorities?

The Most Important Business

What you do and say has eternal consequences, either by commission or by omission. One 19th-century American theologian said this:

“The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the one business for which the earth exists. To it, all politics, all war, all literature, all money-making, ought to be subordinated; and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God this is his task on earth.”

At first glance, this statement may seem like an exaggeration but pause for a moment and consider it. Of all the things you spend your time building, establishing, or creating, what will last five years? Twenty years? One hundred years? If you have done anything today that will benefit or affect something for several decades, you are among the fortunate minority. If you have done anything today that will outlive your generation, you are among a select few.

A friend recently said to me, “Our children are the only things on earth that we can bring with us to heaven.”  No other work on earth has that beautiful possibility!

Eternal Consequences

If you have invested your time, energy, and resources in your children, you have invested in the future. If you have labored to point your children to Jesus, you have affected eternity. One of the curses of our fallen state is that our hearts are not naturally for our children. Thankfully, one of the blessings of the gospel is a changed heart. The prophet Malachi announced that one of the effects of the gospel would be a change of heart towards our children (See Mal. 4:5-6). Remember, your child has a never-dying soul. Your child will one day move into eternity. What are we doing today to help them live in repentance, faith, and love? What are we doing with our children to prepare them to stand before the Holy Judge of all men? Is it really our priority to do everything in our power to move them into a state of safety in Christ?

Dear friends, if we are honest, we must all confess that we have fallen short. Yet as long as we breathe, there is opportunity to repent, lean upon Christ, and do more today than we did yesterday. The goal of this school is to support you in this task. I will pray for your children, instruct them in the Way, correct and admonish, and point them to Christ. You have entrusted to us for a few hours a day the very thing that must be your greatest earthly priority. I thank you for that high stewardship and covet your prayers.

We are moving forward as a school with the knowledge that the task before us is a great one! Praise God that He can supply to us all that He requires of us. Jesus said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor. 12:9)