This article is written by Mark Massey, Executive Director of Victory Family Ministries
As parents, the ones most intimately connected to our children, we sometimes find ourselves at a total loss as to who they really are.
It might be a sudden revelation of activities, friends, or thinking, or it might be a reflection on their life trajectory that causes us to feel that pit in our stomach.
When we reflect on the verse that says, “as a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7), we can unravel the mystery a little.
While a child can certainly deceive by not doing the bad things around you, their real character can’t be hidden continuously. Such revelation of heart is really a grace of God at work in your son or daughter’s life.
We should consider it of some relief when sin is brought to light by our gracious God. It is His way of rescuing our kids’ hearts. When God graciously shows us where our kids are in their behaviors, we have a grand opportunity to engage their hearts and help them see what God wants them to see.
Those are our “marching orders.” We are to figure out how to engage our
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