February 20 Flawed Parents
Driving his daughter
Elizabeth home from kindergarten, the man was pulled over for speeding. The officer
came up and Elizabeth saw her dad, the confident Sunday morning preacher,
turned into a stammering, weak excuse of a man. These times come, times when
children see their parents are flawed. Put it theologically, these are times
when children raised in Christian homes start to distinguish between God and
their parents as God’s representatives.
God gave the Ten
Commandments on two tablets (Exodus 32:15). The first group of commandments
tells us our duties toward God, leading with “You shall have no other gods
before Me” (Exodus 20:3). The second group deals with our duties toward our
fellow human beings. At the head of that group God put, “Honor your father and
your mother.” Martin Luther: “Next to God we give them the very highest place.”
As good as he was in so
many things, King David regretted not acting as God’s representative to
Absalom. You’ll hear about that tomorrow in worship, another incentive to
reboot through repentance.
CTRL+ALT+DEL: Heavenly
Father, for Jesus’ sake forgive our parenting sins. Reboot us to see these are
Your children more than ours. Amen.
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