A Parent’s Desire!
Deuteronomy 14
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, December 13.
“If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”
There is a good chance that you have said it, or it’s been said to you! This is a classic parenting question to teach your children to think for themselves and not go along with the crowd. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Bad company corrupts good morals.” Parents care about who influences their children!
Deuteronomy 14:1a states, “You are the sons of the Lord your God.” For the first time, God calls the Israelites His sons. As a loving Father, He is commanding His children to be different. In this chapter, God tells His people to not grieve like the others (1-2), to not eat like the others (3-21), and to not do finances like the others (22-29). God was establishing a new community, which was to be different than the Egyptian culture they were rescued from and the Canaanite culture that surrounded them.
God desires for His children to bring honor to the family name, so He set them apart! Verse 2 declares, “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God.” The struggle is that kids, so often, just want to fit in with their friends, and that is when parents step in and ask ridiculous questions about jumping off bridges!
Why do parents discipline their children? Because we love them and want only the best for them! Hebrews 12:10-11 explains the Father’s discipline:
“He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Seize the moment and trust that God’s ways are for your good and His glory! God loves you like parents love their children—He only wants the best for you!
God bless you!
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