Praying the Psalms over our kids: The key to measuring up
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How do you measure your value?
If you’re anything like me, you’ve measured it by the square footage of your house, the size of your bank account, the number on the scale, and the accolades of your kids. Yet none of these things tell the real story of who we are to Jesus—and that’s why measuring up gets us in trouble.
Today we’re praying for our kids as they struggle with this same temptation of comparison. Growing up in a day and age inundated with social media, it’s hard not to weigh looks, grades, athleticism, and talents against those around them. So we’re focused this week on praying for our kids to look to Jesus and not the world for value and identity.
As we pray through Psalm 84, I encourage you to really consider verse 10. Take a few minutes to read this Psalm and get a jump on where we’re headed in praying for our kids.
P.S. We would be so grateful if you’d consider sharing Pardon the Mess with a friend. Encourage those you know and love to join us in praying each week by forwarding this email or sending a link to the show. Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends, welcome to pardon the message, Cynthia. |
| 0:17.2 | So glad you're joining us today this week. |
| 0:19.2 | We are praying for our kids and measuring up. |
| 0:23.5 | That whole idea of, do we measure up? Thank goodness. That's not a problem for any of us, right? |
| 0:28.8 | All right. Psalm 8410. We are reading Psalm 84. Today, but 8410 is our key verse. |
| 0:35.2 | Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I'd rather be a |
| 0:39.8 | doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. And so we will get back to |
| 0:45.8 | that verse, but what a powerful verse that is. And so this whole idea of measuring up, I think is so |
| 0:52.2 | difficult for our kids. I think it's so difficult for us, too. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm going to give you an example of how I saw this play out in a very real way last year for my |
| 1:01.3 | daughter. When she was getting ready to go to college, I remember thinking, okay, well, |
| 1:05.7 | I'm glad we're done with this whole phase of getting into college and having these resumes |
| 1:10.1 | and having all the things |
| 1:11.1 | you have to do in order to be, I'm air quoting, successful enough to get in certain colleges. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm like, I'm glad this is done because the whole process is hard and then, you know, scores on |
| 1:21.5 | ACTs and SATs in comparison from that. |
| 1:24.2 | And I don't know, it just felt like the whole senior year was hard. |
| 1:27.1 | And so as she went |
| 1:28.2 | off from her freshman year for new beginnings, I'm like, great. In my mind, I'm like, we've checked |
| 1:33.0 | off at least some of that box of this comparison, needing to measure up to the standards of the |
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