If you blame your children for your bad attitudes, actions and words -- not only will you embitter them, but in blaming them, you will fail to reach out for the help that is yours in the rescuing, forgiving and transforming grace of Jesus. And because you shift the blame, you will fail to grow as a parent and you will repeat the same patterns over and over again. When you are willing to confess that YOU are the biggest problem in your parenting, you are on the road to very good things in you and in your work with your kids. God's grace grows and changes you as a parent...Remember the gospel; although the power of sin has been broken in the beautiful justifying mercies of Jesus Christ, the presence of sin still remains with us. So God's present zeal is to progressively deliver us from the remaining hold that sin has on us. This means that he will use the pressures, opportunities, hassles, burdens, griefs, temptations and joys to grow and change us. Think of how beautiful this is: In every moment as you are parenting your children, the heavenly Father is parenting you.
Such needed reminders.
May I have the eyes to see that every frustrating day, inconvenient moment, tantrum, emotional breakdown is an instrument in my Father's hand to grow and sanctify me into greater Christlikeness. How sweet it is to be able to cling to His grace daily to do the impossibly hard task of raising children!
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