I will confess my frustration with one of my girls (Anna doesn’t want to be identified) who, rather than do what she knows must be done (homework), will constantly choose to avoid it in hopes of either me forgetting or Jesus returning first. This is our daily ritual just moments after getting off the school bus: “Do you have homework?” “Me?” “Yes you, do you have homework?” “You mean from school?” “Yes from school.” “I got some papers for you to look at.” “Good, but do you have homework?” “I don’t know.” “Let me see your planner.” “Why?” “Because your assignments are written in it and I want to know what you need to do.” “Oh, that homework…I’ll do it later.” “No, you will do it now.” “Why?” Well, to spare you the drama, the conversation usually ends soon with both of us frustrated, sitting at the kitchen table…doing homework. I wonder why it has to be this way every night...then I remember what God puts up with in dealing with me. “Do you love me?” “Who me? Yeah!” “Then why do you continue in sin?” “Who me? That’s not really sin…it’s just that…” “If you loved me you wouldn’t want to do that.” “It’s not that I really want to…it’s just that…” It’s about then that God reminds me that anything less than total obedience is really disobedience. My prayer is that I might be as graceful with my children as God is with His.
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You ever thought of making a tape recording so you could just play it each evening? You caused me to have flashbacks of when my 33 year old was in grade school and I would still be standing at the kitchen table with my uniform on at 9 o'clock at night. I promise you, you will miss it when it is gone & also you will look back on it and just see the humor. I just hope that God looks at us through eyes of humor cause we are pretty funny with all our excuses! And absolutely, anything less than total obedience is disobedience!
I had the lesson at Women's Breakfast yesterday and was talking about children and what we can learn from them. I just wonder - does God often have to count to 3 with us like we do with our children when we expect them to obey us??
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