"Then Manoah entreated Jehovah and said, Oh, my Lord!  Let the man of God, whom You sent, come again to us, I pray; and let Him teach us what we should do with the boy that is to be born...And Manoah said, Now when Your words come pass, what rule shall the boy follow, and what shall he do?

And the Angel of Jehovah said to Manoah, Observe all that I spoke to this woman.  She is not to eat of anything that comes forth from the grapevine, nor is she to drink wine or strong drink, nor is she to eat anything unclean; she shall observe all that I commanded her."

Judges 13:8, 12-14

As new parents, Amy and I often wonder how to raise our daughter.  Like Manoah, we worry what rules our daughter should follow, how she should behave, and what she should do.  But from this passage in Judges, instead of telling them what rules the boy would follow, Jehovah charged Manoah's wife to take the Nazarite vow.  For our daughter to have a proper humanity in God's eyes and to be a useful vessel in His economy, we as parents, need to live a life that is sanctified and separated according to the Nazarite vow.  In footnote 2 of Numbers 6:2, it reveals that "God desires all His people be Nazarites.  To be a Nazarite is to be sanctified, separated, absolutely and ultimately to God, i.e., to be for nothing other than God."  This requires us to subject ourselves to the Headship of Christ, daily consecrate ourselves to Him, and experience Him as the reality of the burnt offering.  By our cooperation and through His mercy and grace, we pray that our daughter would be a "vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the master, prepared unto every good work" (2 Timothy 2:21).