Praying for our kids: Marked by humility
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
We’re raising kids in a culture that basks in recognition and praise, making it difficult to strike the balance of teaching our kids to be confident in their God-given identity while also exuding a humble spirit.
We’re kicking off this week on Pardon the Mess by praying humility over our kids, and I’m hard-pressed to think of an attribute that’s more lacking in today’s culture than this one.
Jesus is the perfect model of humility. He came to earth in the form of a baby and lived a blameless life so he could die on the cross and give us new life. He more than deserved recognition and acknowledgment for his heavenly status, yet he chose to demonstrate humility because of his commitment to the Father’s will and the larger gospel story.
Join me in praying this week for our kids to humbly serve others, admit their mistakes, and recognize that all praise and glory belongs to the Lord as the giver of all good gifts (James 1:17).
Let’s also ask the Lord to guide them in being passionate and outspoken when appropriate, but also disciplined enough to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger (James 1:19).
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:15.5 | Hey guys, welcome to pardon the mess. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm glad you're with us. |
| 0:18.5 | We're praying this week that our kids will be marked by |
| 0:21.1 | humility. And I don't know that it's one of those weeks where I feel like I have a lot to add |
| 0:26.8 | because I think humility is such a hard one in our own lives, much less in the lives of our kids. |
| 0:32.5 | My dad used to make this joke whenever humility would come up. He's like, oh, I wrote a book on humility |
| 0:38.3 | and how I perfected it. Dad joke, right, for sure. And so I was thinking about humility. And |
| 0:44.5 | it also, because I was thinking my dad and his dad joke, I was thinking about what humility |
| 0:49.6 | my dad has shown in his life. And I'm going to start us off with this example. Just as I've gotten |
| 0:55.5 | older and been married and then had kids, my dad is super, super handy. And so he can kind of fix |
| 1:02.1 | anything. I grew up in one of those houses where my dad, like if we need an oil change, |
| 1:06.0 | my dad would change the oil in our driveway or fix the brakes on the car or whatever in the house, plumbing, toilets. |
| 1:12.4 | And I married a man who is not exactly as talented in that area. And that's fine. In fact, |
| 1:20.3 | it took some time for me to realize that at my husband saying, listen, I'm a good lawyer. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm not good in terms of handyman stuff around the house. But my dad over the |
| 1:29.6 | years has filled in that gap so sweetly and unassumingly. And if anything's going on in our house, |
| 1:35.4 | which is like yours probably, there's always something. A toilet's running or the sink won't, |
| 1:40.7 | you know, drain or whatever. And my dad just comes over quietly. Anytime, if I mentioned |
| 1:45.1 | something or send him a text, comes over quietly, no fanfare, works on our house. Lots of times |
| 1:50.7 | we're not even here. He'll come by and check stuff out, work on it just to not make a scene. And |
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