Lessons Learned from My Kids
October 27, 2007
queenmom
I truly believe one reason God gave me kids is to get my attention so He could teach me and work in me all the things I desparately need to learn and couldn’t learn any other way. Sometimes I can see a biblical truth played out in our kids’ words and lives easier than any other way.
Yesterday as I was dropping Little Miss off at school in Perfect Middle Child’s car, a reminiscing thought came to mind–the times that Princess and Perfect Middle Child have grumbled about Hubby and I using “their” cars/gas to run an errand. (Sidebar–Hubby and I bought cars for Princess and Perfect Middle Child to use. It was made clear that they did not own the cars, but we do.) In all fairness, we have not heard these grumblings often, but they have come up and my immediate response was one of –You’ve got to be kidding! You’re whining about a little bit of gas after all we have done for you!
This time when that thought popped into my head I heard my heavenly Father gently say to me–”After all I’ve done for you.” Yes, how many times have I grumbled about unfairness or been unforgiving and the Father could say, ever so justly, “After all I’ve done for you.”
After all He and Christ gave for me how can I grumble when I’m cut off in traffic, when the clerk isn’t as perky as I would like, when I’m gossiped about or misunderstood, when I’m not invited to the shopping trip or dinner out, when my kids cop an attitude? How can I complain instead of giving grace? The LORD has given everything for me and forgiven my uglies that I’m way too embarrassed to mention here. He loves me and has accepted me and suffered immensely for me and died for me and still I grumble about the injustices done to me.
Several Scriptures speak really powerfully to this–Matthew 6:12-15; Matthew 26:67-68, 27:27-31; Mark 15:15-32; Luke 23:34; Ephesians 4:1-7 Read these in context and prayerfully.
This everyday woman is going to be chewing on this thought for quite awhile, because this child has a lot to learn from her Father.
Entry Filed under: Bible,Christian women,Christianity,Faith,forgiveness,God,Grace,obedience to God,spiritual growth
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fikalo |
November 9, 2007 at 1:49 am
Wow! Yes, motherhood has taught me more about grace and mercy and forgiveness and patience than anything else. It’s quite an education being a mother!