Many things can be important to us.
Our spouse. Oh, that’s a good one, to have a person we’ve searched for from youth, someone to hold us and support us in our time of need.
Things with intrinsic value also rate high on our “importance” scale. Grandma’s old quilt, the one we helped her stitch. Our father’s car, where the smell alone takes us back.
Often things we hold as important make no sense to others. Why would anyone collect a cabinet full of salt dispensers? Or a wall of cuckoo clocks?
Then there’s the collector that can’t turn loose of newspapers, even when they’re years out of date. How can they be important to us emotionally or in any other way? Throw them out! Trash them! No one will see it as anything other than a good choice.
What about the day we come home from the hospital with a little bundle wrapped and in our arms?
A child, either a daughter or a son. The life in that bundle makes it precious.
Ephesians 4:32 cautions us to treat our children with the tenderness of God.
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
We can apply three truths from this verse:
- Be kind to our children. Correct them gently.
- Let tenderheartedness rule the day. See their actions with the eyes of love.
- Start over fresh when they stumble. Remember that Christ forgave us, and we can do no less for our children.
Our children are the most precious thing God entrusts into our care. How we treat them determines the people they will become.
We should care for our children better than anything else we have around us. It’s God’s way. It’s the only way.
Children are God’s gift to us, and they are precious in his sight.
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