BONUS: Marked by Hope
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” —Isaiah 40:31
A few years ago, Pew Research released a poll revealing that seven in ten US teens considered anxiety and depression a major problem among their peers. Of those participating in the poll, 61 percent indicated they felt pressure to get good grades, while 29 percent felt pressure to look good and 28 percent felt pressure to fit in socially.
Considering that our culture’s expectations are so often arbitrary and impossible to meet, it’s not surprising that our kids struggle with anxiety and depression. When the world ties our worth to materiality and performance, it feels hopeless because we’re only as good as our most recent accomplishment or latest accolade.
But, as Christians, our hope is in the Lord. Practically speaking, that means we’re not looking to the world to meet our greatest needs and desires, Rather, we look to God. Biblical hope is not just desiring for something good to happen in our lives; it’s a confident expectation that God will actually do it.
There are so many reasons for our kids to be hopeful in the Lord:
- He has good plans for their lives (Jeremiah 29:11).
- He leads and teaches them in his ways (Psalm 32:8).
- He will fulfill his greater purpose in their lives (Psalm 138:8).
- He will establish their plans (Proverbs 16:3).
- He promises to work all things together for their good (Romans 8:28).
The Pew Research statistics confirm what we already know: we need to diligently pray that our kids are not weighed down by impossible standards of our culture, but that they will be marked by a hope found only in the Lord.
Lord, there is no hope without you. Use [name] as an instrument to take your hope to those around them. Take our days, Lord—the good, the bad, the easy, the hard—and show us the greater picture of hope found only in you.
God’s word speaks: Ephesians 1:18; Jeremiah 29:11; Mark 9:23; Psalm 33:18
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| 1:19.0 | We're on week 20 of our marked by prayer journey throughout the year. |
| 1:23.7 | Are you so proud of us? |
| 1:24.8 | I'm so proud of us. |
| 1:25.8 | We've been praying for our kids all year. |
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| 1:36.8 | I would not have prayed all these weeks in a row for my kids. And so I'm super grateful that we're doing this together. We're on week 20, which is about hope. And I want to tell you a story |
| 1:42.2 | that a friend told me and it really got my attention. |
| 1:44.3 | I don't think I've told you this, but maybe. |
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