Don't Try to Be Omniscient!

Raising children can be difficult. No parent should want to see their children fail. We want our children to succeed and to have the best possible life in the future. As Christians, we want to see our children rise up and follow the Lord with their whole heart. But what is the best way for us to accomplish this? Is it better to shield children from the evil world, or to show them how evil the world really is? The best course of action is to love God ourselves, trust Him, and to love our children.

Unlike God, we will never be omniscient and omnipresent. We cannot know all things about how our loved ones will act in any given situation. We want our children to make good decisions, but that does not mean that we should be there to make all of their decisions for them. Trying to make ourselves omniscient and omnipresent in a loved one's life never accomplishes anything; instead, it is more likely to damage the relationship rather build it. Parents do not decide whether or not their children go to heaven. God does. As such, there is really only one thing that we can do, as Mike Bickle says, "Sit at the Lord's feet. It's the great commandment. It's the first commandment... Why do you not be in His presence and bring brightness to your kids? Your children need you for sure, but they need brightness in your spirit." This applies to every relationship we have. Love God, trust Him, and then love others. God knows all things, and He certainly knows what He is doing. We were never intended to control our family member's lives. We were intended to love them.

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