God’s Goodness is Good Enough for Our Kids
Any effort to know and be like our maker is fueled by love and it becomes our joyful ambition.
Any effort to know and be like our maker is fueled by love and it becomes our joyful ambition.
Believing there is a formula to ensure that our children will follow a path that we deem “good” is to think of ourselves, even unintentionally, as gods.
He is teaching me what I’ve known in my head, but not always believed in my heart: I can do nothing apart from Christ, but in him I can do all things.
We may cloak it as “wanting them to do well,” but deep down we are trying to supply some inner need that was meant to be filled by Christ himself.
Because of who he is, I have the freedom to come to him with open hands, tears in my eyes, and weariness in my bones.
My desire for my two children to turn out to be godly young adults has actually become an idol.
Jesus doesn’t need my wise parenting, my school volunteer hours, or my completed task list.
Even as I preach the gospel of rest and acceptance to myself, those ugly performance idols keep rearing up, beckoning me to worship achievement above Jesus.
God is not calling you to be what only he can be- he is calling you to lay your head on the pillow of his sovereignty and rest in knowing that he is God, and you are not.