Prayer for My Children Day 16
Day 16: Peace-loving: Father, let my children make every effort to do what leads to peace (Rom. 14:19)
My son rebuts and says, "It's my freedom! I have the freedom of speech, I can say whatever I want!" Without getting into a lengthy lecture, although I was tempted to, I told him, there's no freedom without responsibility.
In Romans 14, I could almost imagine Apostle Paul with the 'Are you serious?' expression on his face, "Would you quit arguing about meaningless things- about what to eat, what to drink? Look, it's about living in the Holy Spirit! You are all missing the point!" And I might add, "You idiots!" My kids know the extent of my road rage would be calling someone "Idiot!" They laugh at me and I quickly deny it but they heard me.
I pray that my kids would be passionate people. Passionate about life, about their families, about caring for others, passionate about what they do, and about God. Passionate people have tendencies to become militant people. I've worked with many good but militant people. They are ready to die for their cause and nothing will stop them. But, they can be blinded from other's point of view or the differences. We are all created differently. Difference does not equal to bad. I pray that my kids would learn to accept the differences in people and groups and work toward finding peace. Freedom is given to us freely by our nation and by God and finding peace is our responsibility.
My son rebuts and says, "It's my freedom! I have the freedom of speech, I can say whatever I want!" Without getting into a lengthy lecture, although I was tempted to, I told him, there's no freedom without responsibility.
In Romans 14, I could almost imagine Apostle Paul with the 'Are you serious?' expression on his face, "Would you quit arguing about meaningless things- about what to eat, what to drink? Look, it's about living in the Holy Spirit! You are all missing the point!" And I might add, "You idiots!" My kids know the extent of my road rage would be calling someone "Idiot!" They laugh at me and I quickly deny it but they heard me.
I pray that my kids would be passionate people. Passionate about life, about their families, about caring for others, passionate about what they do, and about God. Passionate people have tendencies to become militant people. I've worked with many good but militant people. They are ready to die for their cause and nothing will stop them. But, they can be blinded from other's point of view or the differences. We are all created differently. Difference does not equal to bad. I pray that my kids would learn to accept the differences in people and groups and work toward finding peace. Freedom is given to us freely by our nation and by God and finding peace is our responsibility.
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