"Children obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to The Lord" (Colossians 3:20).
Teaching our children to obey is an act of saving them from a very troubled and heart-breaking life. Children who do not learn to obey, grow up thinking the world revolves around them. Their disrespect for authority often results in trouble at school as children and broken marriages and/or arrests as adults.
Teaching children to obey is not a promise that none of those things will happen, but not teaching children to obey almost guarantees they will occur.
