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Start Early, Do More
A neurologist at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan has done research that reveals the
great capacity of growing human brains to absorb information.
He discovered that by age 2, the infant’s cortex is operating at adult levels. At age 4, that
child’s brain is twice as active as the adult brain and continues at that rate until 10, when it
begins to slow down. By 16, it has slacked off to the pace at which it continues through
adulthood.
God’s wisdom is seen in His stressing the importance of instilling in children the truths of
His word at an early age. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will
not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one God. Thou shall
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these
words which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them
diligently to thy children…” (Deuteronomy 6:4). By exposing them to a large quantity of Bible
teaching in their early years, we can be instrumental in programming their “mental computers”
so that they know the mind of God and think as He does.
As they reach adulthood, they can then choose to have good, honest hearts that will make
them followers of the Lord. “And the seed that fell on the good ground, those with an honest and
good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast and bring forth fruit with patience” (Luke 8:15).
~ Mike Mayes, Heart to Heart; Jacksonville, AL
