Grace that is powerful
"God is far more interested in who we are becoming than what we are doing." -Alicia Bruxvoort The relationship between us and the Lord is beautifully demonstrated through the very complex parent/child relationship. In Psalms it says a man with many children is blessed and respected by his opponents. Not only are we blessed to be parents, but in Proverbs we are also assigned the tremendous task of training up our children in the way they should go. Children are then commanded to honor the parents, their teachers here on earth. When we are teaching our children to trust that the guardrails we set for their behavior and their safety are for their good and, ultimately, God's glory, there is a huge lesson in that for the parent as well. To set guardrails for our children and know how to raise them up in God's ways, we as parents must constantly submit to God's authority over us. The phrase "mother knows best" has always sounded absurd to me. As a par