Your Parents and You

Isaiah 55:8 "For your thoughts are not my thoughts; neither are your ways my ways."

Robert S. McGee published a very good book entitled: Your Parents and You. I have read this book a few times and have passed it on to others I thought might benefit. I was always careful to avoid giving the book to a parents because the book is really for adult or young adult children seeking understanding and healing. To give it to parents of a child who themselves were broken risked the reader judging themselves as parents rather than healing their own inner child.

The book begins by introducing the reader to the fall of man. With the fall of man came a life of brokenness. When sin entered the world though disobedience, (listening to voice of someone other than God/Parent) life was forever altered. The life that God had not originally designed was made void though sin. Adam and Eve were separated from God.

Often when children sin or miss the mark, it can cause a separation between child and parent. These fractures have long term implications. Because these are spiritual fractures occurring in the physical world, we don't always recognize the damage until it is too late. We suffer. Our homes have a spirit within them, but it may not be the Holy Spirit. It might well be that divisive spirit.

When I think about my parents now, I can see that they too had a life that they originally designed or thought they were designing when bring along a family. I can look back now and see that their thoughts and ways were not my thoughts and ways and my thoughts and ways were not their thoughts and ways. God's thoughts or ways were not in our home. Consequently, being under the authority of broken parents can leave adult children picking at the past to see what went wrong and how things might have been better.

I try to see my adult self as God's child. I try very had to defer to God's Thoughts and Ways. If I can hand over my thoughts and ways to the All Mighty God, such as a child might inherently yield to a parent, then I can learn to trust God with all things and truly know that all things work together for my good because I love God.

My parents knew much more than I knew as a child. They had so many more responsibilities that I was not aware of as a child. I was free on so many levels from worry and doubt. However, they were not. They had worries and doubts that I could have never comprehended as a child. And so does God. I seek the freedom of a child when I choose to turn over the reigns of thoughts and ways to God. Unlike my parents, God is all knowing and all wise. He is all powerful and knows the beginning from the end.

Pray today that we do not suffer alone and trust that God knows what's best for you. His ways are higher than our ways. In Jesus' name.

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