What would be the worst thing ever to have around your neck? In Matthew 18:6, Jesus talked about a person having “a millstone…hung around his neck.” These types of stones were so large that they had to be turned by a beast of burden, particularly a donkey or mule. Think about having that tied around your neck and thrown overboard “in the depth of the sea.”
Why, oh why, would Jesus ever describe such a horrible sight? He did so to illustrate something that is even worse than that! (What could possibly be worse?) Jesus said that “it would be better” to have a millstone hung around your neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea, than to be someone who “causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin.”
Of course, we immediately think that we should not lead a child into a sin of commission. But what about a sin of omission? Those are just as dangerous and just as sinful! Friends, Christians, parents, grandparents, we must go out of our way (even perhaps into inconvenience) to raise children to love and serve the Lord with all their hearts!