Deuteronomy 6:20 English Standard Version (ESV) When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’

The assumption in this verse is that we have presented our testimonies, statutes and rules that the Lord our God has given us as commandments. Those are three different things.

In this day and age our testimonies will be much different than those that lived through the Exodus. Our testimonies will not align themselves with the answers that follow here.

Just how do we answer for ourselves when and if our children ask us to explain what we believe and why?

When we have children before we submit to Christ’s Lordship we will find ourselves answering why our behavior has changed. If the question does not come up then we must consider one of two things, we have not changed or our children are too frightened to ask.

Sudden changes in adults with children of a certain age brings into question the relationship we have with our children. How we convey the Word of Truth to them may be clumsy at first because we are babes in Christ and have not learned ourselves all that needs to be understood.

Blessed are those who have come to Christ before they have children.That is not always the situation.

It is entirely possible that even children raised in a Christian home may have questions about these three things. As such we should all be prepared to give a reasonable understanding of testimony, statutes and rules.

1 Do you have a testimony of how God changed your life?

2 Do you have a proper understanding of statutes?

3 What rules do you live by?

It is apparent to me at the moment that one other aspect has come into play.

Have we considered a need to answer for ourselves why we believe and act as we do?