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Loving children is easy. How can it not be? They trust you completely. They love you completely. No demands, no conditions. They have literally loved you from birth. It’s what we as parent do that determines if they will still love us when they grow up. I know from experience. My parents have done everything possible to ensure that I don’t love them. Still though there is some little part of me that loves them. What is that? What makes a child love their parent even though they have not done anything to foster that love. Is it Gods way of trying to teach us that love, Gods love is unconditional that no matter what we do to him, ourselves or others that he will still love us? That he is still there waiting arms wide open for us to come to him and let him love us and teach us. I think that is why we have children. They teach us about Gods love. They teach us to give up self. To put someone else’s happiness and well being before our own. Loving and caring for a child, I believe, is one of the most perfect ways to honor God. When we love and care for our children. We are learning to be better children of God. We are reminded, if we pay attention, every day through the lessons we try to teach our young what God is trying to teach us.
Now some will say; not all children are good and that even when the parents do everything they are supposed to and raised the child with good Christian values and morals in a steady home and safe life there are still children who just turn out bad. I say that is another lesson. After all, God has given us everything we need to be upstanding good Christians and live as he has taught yet. Even still aren’t some of us just going to rebuke everything he has tried to teach us? Don’t we too rebel against him and his love? These are the lessons that he is teaching us everyday. If we are open and mindful we will take them to heart and try to learn from them. Every day is an opportunity to grow and learn; especially when you are a parent charged with the awesome responsibility of bringing up an upstanding God loving productive member of society. So parents I challenge you to look at your children and think of the lessons God is trying to teach you. -
Rooted by Hebrew/Greek will tell!
Anyone who studies the language arts can find the following definitions to be descriptive of the 3 KINDS of love. These are derived from the Hebrew/Greek roots at the genesis of written words and their meanings.1-eros- the bonding by the flesh to senses, including sexual.
2-filial- connective by blood within a family; relationships, thereof
3-agape-the type that only can be spiritual, given first by the Beginner, the Author of this attribute; the unconditional and always providing Giver. This type is the unexplainable continuing love that is produced only by the recipeint because it isn’t humanly POSSIBLE.
How profound that you were left with this love only by DEDUCTION. ...that the very treatment of you as a child wasn’t nourishing, but still you were reaching out to them in the only way possible.
I am convinced of the fact that you were FREE from the bondage of what wasn’t given you. Many aren’t. It can be done. They can be touched by a soul like YOU who is willing to give them this precipice crossed over, this offering of hope to untwine the most twisted behaviour. It will be a ministry, you may say, for you to convey this fact. I have to say that I’d LOVE for you to tell us your influences and who is the one that brought you to being beckoned by the Holy Spirit.
I lift you up….unafraid, in the name of Jesus Christ who provides all things. There are no other reasons.
I’m glad you offered this.
Critique
In form as a column, it blossoms well. Written with a distinct aim for the reader to come up with something.Do not let the public railroad you into finding it less than a question JUST because you found solace in the Saviour. Continue to pray that you are armed and able to tell others about the Hope within you.
Warmly, CookieZeal/DBerry
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‘God fearing productive member of society.’
If your God loves all, why ‘fear’ God? Why teach a child to fear something that you’re teaching them to love? Should a child fear their parent(s)? If they shouldn’t, why then should they be taught to ‘fear’ their God?
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Fear as in respect. I know, I know that word, I don’t really like it either. I think I will change it. Respect for his awesome power. that is what I meant. Thanks for calling me on that one.
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Fear is not another interpretation of respect. So, if I respect my parents it’s because I fear them? That’s mundane. Fear is not another word for respect. Respect is honorable—fear is to scare people.
I don’t think it matters that you changed the word if you still give the same perception as to the meaning of ‘fear’.
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I looked up fear in the dictionary, and found some good info about this word. There are many types of fear, one of which is "filial regard mingled with awe;reverence. I believe this is the type of fear the bible speaks of.
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