True or false? If God is absolutely for you, your children will turn out good. False! 
There was a time when I was a youth pastor, I judged the parents of some of the rebellious teenagers as ungodly or incompetent. I thought, naively and wrongly, that if parents were godly and raised up their children properly, then the children would turn out good. But how wrong I was! 
Isaac and Rebekah were a match made in heaven! God answered Abraham’s prayer and handpicked a wife for Isaac. And they had two boys. You would figure that since Isaac was the son of the most blessed man in all of Old Testament – Abraham – not only his marriage would be blessed, but his two boys would turn out to be some kind of super saints! But they were anything but!  
In his (Isaac) old age, his wife deceives him, partnering with his son Jacob. And his firstborn son is an idiot. “They (Esau and his wives) made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.” Genesis 26:35.So, there goes the myth, “If we serve God with all our hearts, God will grant us a godly family.” 
As a matter of fact, in order to humble us and make us godly, God may give us a messed-up family… 
After all, God was a perfect Father to Isarel, and yet look at how she turned out… 
Don’t judge parents by their children. Don’t judge yourself by your children if you are a parent. Only God judges us.
PH