Daily Devotional Dives - Compassionate Heavenly Father

Our Heavenly Father, God, is compassionate and full of merciful love for His children.  Time and time again he showed it and His ever ready forgiveness.  Parents can learn from His example and humbly follow Him.

Neil T. Anderson, in his book Victory Over the Darkness, expostulates on page 132,

"You wouldn't give your child a task he couldn't complete, and God doesn't assign to you goals you can"t achieve.   His goals for you are possible, certain and achievable.  The only requirement for success is your response.  You must say with Mary (Jesus' mother):  "Behold, the bond-slave of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word." (Luke 1:38)

Parents, this means we will be able to parent our children in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6).  It won't be impossible and we can ask for wisdom from God (James 1:5-7) in so doing.  We can put our anxiety on Him (1 Peter 5:7) and when you feel defeated in this, God will lead us in triumph (2 Corinthians 2:14).  Child rearing is challenging but God goes with us.

Guess it's not a matter of feelings but a choice to choose the positive side especially each time our children choose to attempt to thwart the training.

As our Heavenly compassionate Father treats us, let us treat our children.  Take heart...its achievable.

                                                         ~ERC  2017~
                         Originally written in April 1995; adapted for blog July 2017