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For Our Earthly Fathers
Disciplined Us For A Few Years,
Doing The Best They Knew How.
Scripture
10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful!
Observation
If I had the opportunity, which I don’t, but
if I did have the opportunity I would go back and discipline my children
differently. I would have definitely hugged them more and spanked them less! (I
would have still spanked!)
I
think that looking back on the whole discipline thing I think that it would
have been great for them if I could have loved them as a grandfather loves his
grandchildren.
But
you and I can’t go back for a do over! It is what it is!
My
grown children now have the opportunity to realize that their Dad did the best
he knew how.
Most
of my children are now parents and I believe that they are realizing that being
a parent and being a good spouse is no easy job!
I can’t go back and relive my life, as much as I would
like to go back and change a lot of my mess-ups, I can’t. But I can live life
today in a way that helps my grown children and my grandchildren live abundant
and meaningful Christian lives.
Application
My
main goal for the rest of my life is to be an example to my children and my
grandchildren. I want them when they think of their Dad or when my grandchildren
think of their “Grandpa” I want them to think of someone that reminds them of
Jesus.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, nobody knows me like You do. You know my shortcomings. You see more of
my shortcomings than I even do and yet You still love me. I look at my grown
children and how difficult life is for them and I know that as an earthly
father I could have done a lot better job preparing them for life’s challenges.
Help me to never give up on trying to help them walk closer to You. I pray for
them. I want them to experience all that Kathy and I enjoy in our relationship
with You.
Show
them that they can totally trust in You.
I
pray for my grandchildren. Help each one of them to know You as Savior and as
Lord. Guide and direct them. Help them to grow up with the spiritual knowledge,
with the wisdom and with the understanding that only comes with a personal
relationship with You. Thank You for my five children and my ten grandchildren.
They are all our special gifts from You.
Daily Bible Reading: Hebrews 12,13; Jude
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