BONUS: Love Others
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:34–35)
We are commanded to love others the way we love ourselves—which is kind of hard when we sometimes aren’t so nice to ourselves (we can pray against that for our kids). But we are also called to love others the way Jesus loves us: sacrificially and actively.
For our kids, love as an action means more than being kind to everyone, it means our kids notice when someone is left out and they include them. It means forgiving others, standing up for others, noticing the lonely, and looking for ways to serve others. It’s not always easy, but it’s always good.
When we love people in this way, the people around us notice that there is something different about us. The love of Christ shines bright so the whole world can see that we are his disciples. That is what it is all about because, at the end of the day, the most loving thing we can do for the people around them is to tell them about Jesus and his great love for us.
So this week let’s pray that our kids love others with their words and their actions. Let’s pray that when people see the way our kids treat others, they will see Jesus in them.
Jesus, thank you for loving us. Help ____________ to notice the lonely, the sad, and the hurting and love them well. May they always seek to be more than kind to everyone, but be moved to action so that they can show the world around them your love. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends, welcome back. |
| 0:16.4 | We are praying about how our kids can no love, follow, and share Jesus. And is that the sections? No |
| 0:24.6 | love, follow, and share Jesus. Yes. And we are in the section, love. And so it makes perfect sense |
| 0:29.8 | that we would pray about our kids loving others. And so what does that mean? I think that it's |
| 0:35.6 | something we desire. We want to see that as a fruit of our |
| 0:38.6 | kids' lives. Like, we know that they have Jesus in their heart and the way that they're treating |
| 0:42.5 | others. And sometimes they're being kind of nasty to each other, to their siblings, to us, |
| 0:47.1 | to their friends, and you're feeling a little hopeless. But don't give up hope. And this week's |
| 0:52.8 | verse, it is John 1334 through 35. |
| 0:56.5 | It says, a new commandment I give you to love one another as I have loved you. |
| 1:00.9 | So you must love one another. |
| 1:02.5 | And by this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. |
| 1:06.9 | And I think if you think about it, go back to that WWJD, what would you just do? |
| 1:11.3 | If you go back to your own life and think of people that really loved you in very specific |
| 1:15.2 | and over-the-top ways, you're like, what was up with them? |
| 1:18.8 | Why would they do that? |
| 1:20.0 | And that is the goal is that people would know our family and interact with our family and our kids and the way that they go. |
| 1:25.5 | The way they loved me when they shouldn't |
| 1:27.6 | have or I didn't deserve it, there's something going on there and that something is Jesus. And so |
| 1:32.1 | that is the whole ballgame. But I want to give you three reminders that are based on some parenting |
| 1:36.2 | mistakes I've made and hopefully you'll resonate with them. But the first tip in loving others is |
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