Being a parent is a hard job! Being a parent of a preteen is proving to be an even harder job. Sometimes I wish for those toddler days when you want to pull your hair out because they are into everything. Lord help me when the hormones start to kick in!
Let me just say that I do have 2 terrific daughters. They are wonderful but in order to keep them as obedient little delights, sometimes discipline in necessary.
As I sat in my room folding laundry the other night, it broke my heart to hear my child crying herself to sleep in the other room. Oh, how God must feel when we are wallowing in tears over something that we caused in our own lives.
One of them had said something to the other (repeatedly even after being told not to mention that subject again) that was just plain rude. We've had issues with her having a "better than you attitude" so it was time to put a stop to the behavior. What better way than pulling out God's Word. As Jay spilt the sisters up for the night and "talked" it over with her, I prayed for God to show me a portion of scripture to share with her. Sometimes I have to laugh over God's sense of humor. I just wanted to share with you what He showed me to share with them over name calling.
In 2 Kings 2: 23-24, he is speaking of Elisha here. "And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."
Lesson learned, don't name call or be rude to a child of God. He will retaliate and make you pay for it.
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