“My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart also will be
glad and my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.”
Proverbs 23:15-16
It’s been several
days since I blogged and a lot of the reason for that is because of the
struggles we’ve been experiencing as a family the past week. My 11 year old is going on 16, he thinks, and
wise talk has definitely not been part of his kid to tween maturation. Obviously, I don’t expect my tween child to
be that wise yet, as I am not even very wise, and I’m about to turn 38, but I didn’t
expect him to “think” he was so wise already.
I thought that would come a few years from now. In all of the disrespectful and inconsiderate
attitudes and rebellious behavior we are going through with him right now, it’s
hard to not feel bad about what is seemingly constant nagging and disciplining
of his behavior. Reading this verse,
though, reminded me of what it is all for. It’s so that we can help put him on
the path to wisdom, to guide his steps, to parent him in such a way that he
will know how and why he should take the high road or choice the nobler path
when he has no one to tell him what he needs to do, when God is His only
guide. I hope and pray that he will
defer to God’s ways as he matures because God is the best parent of all, but I know
that I already worry about it a lot more than I should…who his friends are,
what kind of influence they are on him, where their hearts are and where I hope
his will be. It’s not an easy world for
a Christian to live in, heck, now a days, it’s not an easy world for a moral
person with strong unbending values to live in, no matter whether they are a
believer or not. All I know is that I
grew up wanting to please my parents, and I am sure my son wants to please us
too, but more than that, I want him to grow up desiring to please God, to make
His Father’s heart glad and His inmost being rejoice because His child is
speaking and doing what is right. Once
again, I come back to leaning on God because all I can do is try my best in my
meager human parenting skills and knowledge, and the rest is faith, putting my
precious children in God’s hands, believing and knowing there’s no better place
for them to be.
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