God Doesn’t Compare His Children; Why Do I Compare Mine?
How grateful I am that, even in the midst of my sin, I will never hear my God say, “Why can’t you just be a better parent?”
Experience the freedom that comes from laying your comparisons at the foot of the cross and instead become captivated with the purpose of knowing Jesus more and pointing your children to him.
How grateful I am that, even in the midst of my sin, I will never hear my God say, “Why can’t you just be a better parent?”
Seek not what you can’t control, but seek after the peace that comes in relenting to the God who created our children and loves them abundantly more than we do.
We parents have to wrestle our own competitive streaks to the ground before we can even begin to model gospel-formed attitudes about sports to our children.
Do you feel like you don’t measure up? Good. You’re in good company, and you are exactly where you need to be.
Jesus’ followers were extraordinary, not because they stood out in the crowd, but because Jesus called them.
The sooner we admit our vulnerability to ourselves, to our friends, and to our children, the sooner we can stop holding ourselves and our kids hostage to unattainable ideals, and lead them instead into the rest and freedom of life with Christ.