Maplewood Cottage Home-Lessons
• Sep. 22, 2007 - The DAVID FACTOR
This is something that has been impressing itself upon my mind and heart.
How often we can recognize a wrong being committed by ourselves or our children stemming from NOT doing what we should be. A simple example is ... If we come up against our school aged children goofing off thus hurting another, breaking something, spilling something, waking the baby, hurting themselves etc... the list can go on!
HOW VERY OFTEN IS THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT DOING WHAT YOU PURPOSED FOR THEM>
If they were to be doing a chore, working on school work, or simply sitting and reading verses what they chose to do that caused all the trouble!
Just like DAVID and his great sin with Bathsheba!
Thus my term the David Factor.
What a beautiful man he was a man after God's own heart yet he sinned against Him and others.
We all are like this... we don't want our children to be scarred or to scar others by their sinfulness.
I try to tell the children WHY this upset happened WHY everyone is so unhappy at this moment or this hour... because of sin and willfulness.
Let's all avoid it! With the Power of the Blood of Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit! |
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