Good Advice From A Parent
As a parent of four fantastic children, I find myself always wanting to know how to parent better. How to keep and understanding heart and mind yet guide and correct my children so that they can be more than me. One of the keys to that is listening to how other parents do things. Now I know that each family is unique, and even in my own household, each child is unique. What encourages and motivates one child, has little to no effect on the other.
As many of you know I often look to the Bible and the wisdom it contains in order to try and successfully navigate the issues and challenges of life. Through its pages I have been able to find example, advice, correction and guidance on many issues of life. I want to share with you one such passage today, and it is for you, a child of God.
Phillipians 2:14-15 “Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation…”
Want to know how to live a right life, there it is. I like how the author puts it, “you may become”. It is a process, all of life is. How do we make it? How do we stay straight? Stop complaining and arguing. Man if I could get that across to my own kids, my home would be revolutionized. I cant tell you how many complaints and arguments I hear in a day. When I think about God, our Father, how He must feel with our arguing with each other and our complaining. Wow.
So that’s it, your challenge for today, “stop arguing and complaining”. Good luck. Remember it’s a process.
