Undeserved

Psalm 103:8-10 “The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.” (emphasis added)

Do you know that some parents keep malice with their children? It will shock you that sometimes the child in question is a baby. Why? The baby did not let you sleep at night. 

Yes, we acknowledge that some women go through post-partum depression, and it is real. If you are currently in that phase of life, it is my prayer that God will heal your heart. Please reach out and seek help. When we learn to be healed by God’s love, we learn to love our children like God loves us. And we learn to show reckless love. Pause for a moment and just think about this; God took a chance on you. You are here today because God took a chance on you.

Yet you are struggling to take a chance on your child? If God had dealt with you the way you are dealing with that child right now, where will you be? What if those things that you have mapped out for that child as ‘discipline’, God decides to flip the script on you? I was on a project with a friend back in the day in Port Harcourt, and we had a mutual friend. He was preparing to travel to Lagos to deal with his wife because of something she had done. One day, before he travelled, we were not even praying or anything and God spoke to our mutual friend. There and then our friend said God told him that our friend was going to Lagos. He said God said He was not going to stop him from doing whatever he wants to do to his wife. However, the instruction was, ‘Go to Lagos and treat your wife the way you want God to treat you’. 

My friend changed his plans immediately. Instead of going to Lagos to deal with his wife, he went with gifts to pamper her. And as he was pampering her, he was saying, ‘God, see what I am doing.’ The woman repented because she felt funny knowing what she had done and seeing the treatment she was getting. They talked things over, and it was resolved. He was initially going to cause trouble until he got God’s message. What if God treated us the way we treat our spouses or the way we treat our children? We will not be where we are today. 

Spend some time thinking about this; allow it to sink into your system. Why do we allow the errors of our grandparents, handed down to our parents, and handed to us; errors that damaged us and things we did not like, to be handed down to our children? The culture is not helping because the family system is being redefined, criticized, and devalued. There is so much attack on the family. But God will strengthen and preserve our families in Jesus Name.

Prayer: Father, I ask for the grace to love others like You love me—with patience, kindness, compassion, and mercy regardless of how they respond, in Jesus Name. Amen!