What’s Seen and Unseen
Parents, do you have expectations / tendencies (perhaps secretly, inside your heart) to want to see your children succeed / score high at school, that you compromise/disregard the children’s heart tendencies?
e.g.
– It’s IMPORTANT for my children to have high scores at school.
But, if along the way towards that ‘goal’, the child becomes easily envious towards others, prideful, and easily looks down on others who score ‘less’, then it is ‘normal’ and is okay.
– it is IMPORTANT for my children to behave well in public.
But, if behind closed doors they love to watch p*rnography, or if they have zero empathy towards the less fortunate, well that’s not good of course, but ‘at least these things are not seen’ by the public?
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Every individual has sinful heart tendencies, including ourselves and our children.
The question is, what do we do about them?
Have we actually been the one fuelling the development of such heart tendencies in our children?
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I’m writing this not because I’ve done it all and succeeded.
On the contrary, it is because this food for thought is for me, too.
And I hope it is for you as well.
May God have mercy on us all, and help us see what’s important in life, according to HIS standards.
