Is everything in our home perfect? I’d be lying if I said it was. In fact, we’re
still facing those big struggles and lessons that were causing us to lose our
focus in the first place. But we have God’s peace in our home in a way we
didn’t during our attempts to get it in our own strength. We are being
obedient to God and, amazingly enough, our children are back to being
obedient to us—and even more than they were before! Through our efforts to
resolve things without demanding obedience we found areas where we
thought we’d taught them completely but we’d forgotten some aspect, or they
were experiencing confusion about our instructions. We stopped projecting
our anxiety onto them and they stopped magnifying it back to us. We started
working together to find a common good instead of expecting “them” to meet
“our” needs. Life is good. We’re a team again.
If you are having more conflict in your home than you’d like . . . If you are
spending all of your energy trying to make your children obey . . . If you’re
wondering where the peace is that God says is there for HIS children . . .
Perhaps, as His child, you need to look for areas where you can fulfill the
instruction to obey your Father so that things will go well with you in the land
God is giving you. This will require you let go of the picture in your head of
perfect children and a perfect family that you’re trying to press everyone into.
That is hard. I understand. But in doing so you will be able to work with God
towards your own perfection, and you can trust God to keep working on the
other people in your life. And you can know that by being obedient yourself
you ARE teaching obedience—but in the best way, through modeling it to
your disciples.
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