BONUS: Praying Compassion over our kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
“The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.” —Exodus 34:6
The first characteristic God used to describe himself to Moses was compassionate.
It’s amazing to think that we serve a God who is sympathetic to our struggles and burdened by what budens us. Knowing this, it seems only fitting that we focus on praying for our kids to be marked by compassion in their own lives.
Henri Nouwen describes compassion as this:
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears.
Today, we will look at the story of Joshua and Rahab, seeing God’s compassion in action as he spared Rahab’s life and even elevated her to be included in his own lineage.
I’m challenged to revisit compassion in my own life and pray for the Lord to teach me to see the world through his eyes and respond as he leads.
Join me in praying compassion for our families this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Cynthia again off, and I'm so glad that you were with us. |
| 0:20.7 | It is Monday, the second Monday of |
| 0:23.0 | 2021. I hope that you are settling in well to the new year. As I tape this, this is the first day that |
| 0:29.5 | all of my kids are actually in school. And it's always kind of nice to go back to routine. |
| 0:35.3 | But I will say I've been moderately insulted, I think, |
| 0:38.6 | by my four-year-old because the entire break, every day, he would wake up and say, can I go to |
| 0:44.3 | school today? Can I go see my friends today? Can I see my teacher today? And I told my husband, |
| 0:48.5 | I'm starting to get a complex. Like, what's so bad about it being around here, kid? And so he got to go to school today. And boy, |
| 0:54.9 | was he excited. And then another little thought from the vacation time that we had. So on New Year's |
| 1:01.9 | Eve, I was actually awake. I know it's shocking. And so it turns midnight. And my daughter says to me, |
| 1:07.0 | our oldest, she says, can you believe it's 2021? And she was saying to my husband, |
| 1:11.2 | I, that her whole life, you always hear, you know, you're in the class of 2021. And she said, |
| 1:16.1 | I can't believe it's actually that year. And I was taken by that, but also the fact that my eighth |
| 1:20.9 | grader, his graduating year is 2025. And that adage, the days are long, but the years are short, |
| 1:26.7 | it just kept coming back to me, just how fast it all happens. |
| 1:31.2 | And I'm just so thankful that I've prayed over my kids because as my kids are getting older, especially one that's getting ready to go to college, I could get really uptight about where is she going to go to school, where is she going to shake out, who is she going to live with, all of those things. |
| 1:43.8 | And then I think, thank goodness that I've just given it to the Lord. And I've prayed over my |
| 1:47.6 | kids for so long and that he's got it. And you know this. If you listen to this podcast much, |
| 1:52.9 | I have gotten it wrong a lot. And I have missed opportunities to pray over my kids. But I just |
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