Children do not want an insecure friend in a parent; they desperately need an authentic leader capable of providing secure boundaries that they can trust to restrain their excesses.
Children do not want an insecure friend in a parent; they desperately need an authentic leader capable of providing secure boundaries that they can trust to restrain their excesses.
Parenting is God's invitation and academy for you (the parent) to become more perfect (mature).
And like everything God designs, it is beautifully fascinating and amazing beyond words.
Discipline and competence cannot be transferred by proximity. You cannot borrow someone else’s late nights, sleepless nights, and you cannot claim the growth and capacity reward for training you never did.
When a real crisis arrives, the illusion shatters immediately. You are left with only the strength you built yourself. Relying on someone else's labor to hide your slack is just a ticking time bomb. Do your own work, carry your own weight, and earn your own capacity.
It doesn't work that way. Discipline and competence cannot be transferred by proximity. You cannot borrow someone else’s late nights, sleepless nights, and you cannot claim the growth and capacity reward for training you never did.
Asking for more authority or higher income means asking for more stress. The resources and influence you want live directly inside the exact heavy lifting you’ve been dodging.
Society tries to convince Christians that God’s laws are harsh and oppressive.
Don’t fall for it.
God’s laws are there to protect you.
And the alternatives society offers? They can sound compassionate and liberating at first.
Then the consequences come, and it's Absolute madness
It’s in your best interest to stop letting society convince you that God’s laws are too strict or too harsh.
They’ll make disobedience sound like freedom.
It isn’t. The alternatives are always worse.