Are You Going To Obey God

For those Christian parents who have been accused by their children of bad parenting, even though they provided all of their children's needs and did the best they thought they could, as they grew in wisdom, I offer this;

Also for the adult children who want to use their parents as an excuse for bitter attitudes and sinful behavior, I offer this;

One day when I was reflecting on my parenting skills or lack of them in raising our children, the Lord spoke loudly and clearly to me that I suffered from parental pride.

He told me that I was prideful because I thought that I could do an excellent job raising the children because of what I know. My focus was what I could do.

After that I prayed that the Lord would work in my children in spite of me.

The Lord once showed me that there is no perfect parent because we are all fallen human beings who need a Savior.

While we can take responsibility for our own wrong attitudes and actions at times, we cannot take responsibility for the choices our children make, those belong to them alone.

Any adult child that blames their parent for their own sins, is arrogant and self willed, because we know the they would not be the perfect parent any more than we can.

God the Father was a perfect God to Adam and Eve, who had no earthly parents, and look what they did.

They walked with God in the Garden every day, they began perfect and ended badly.

They had the perfect influence, God Himself, and still chose to sin.

Ultimately our choices to obey or disobey God are ours alone, they belong to no one else. Nothing anyone else does can make us sin.

We always have the option to turn to God for our instruction and lessons for the answers to all of the issues of life.

Every thing we need to know to obey God and keep from sin is in God's Word, no other book is needed.

And, the answers to all we need to know dwell in us in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ who can teach us all things.

Next time your child accuses you of failing in your parenting, agree with them, and then ask them one question...."are you going to obey God now"?