Passionate About Your Kids?
Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under general |
When you hang out with your kids, young or older…are you positively jacked up like after chuggin’ a six pack of Mountain Dew? Or do you mostly feel like jacking them up every time they come around? We would all agree that how we feel at any given time about our children depends on the day, the hour, sometimes the very minute in which we encounter them. In my house (and in many of yours I’m sure), the largest doses of drama almost always involve my kids! Since I have lots of girls (including my dog), you can only imagine the extent to which the drama unfolds from time to time!
Most of us would agree that the most satisfying things in life are rarely easy to attain and can be even harder to keep! Everybody knows it’s not easy, but are you pouring everything you can muster into building or rebuilding great relationships with your kids? Are you striving to repair any damage that’s been done by you or someone else? Or…have you decided that it’s just not worth the effort? Have you found yourself thinking about checking out of their lives…until they get a little older maybe…or until you get your golf game just right…or until they get their junk together?
If your mind has been half-heartedly drifting back and forth on the issue of total commitment to a great relationship with your children…you run the risk of missing out on one of the most precious gifts any man has the honor and privilege to experience in all of life! If you’ve given up on trying to overcome the onslaught of the negative influences of our culture…if you are not living the rest of every day you have left on earth striving for a closeness with your kids…or putting back together whatever may have been broken…then you’re just stupid…that’s all there is to is to it…stupid on so many levels!
I realize that last statement doesn’t seem very sensitive in this age of hypersensitivity, but here’s a newsflash! You and I are greatly responsible for the path on which our children tread! Yes, you! No matter how young or old they are…or what decisions they make with or without your consent. You…will stand before God one day…and your wife and children (or future wife and children) will be first and foremost on His mind as it relates to the life you have been given. The Bible speaks very clearly to the promise of great blessing for accepting the absolute priority of your role as a father. As for the consequences if we overlook or minimize this “responsibility”…well, let’s just say…it ain’t pretty.
I am certain that all that you and I have done or will do with our lives pales in comparison to the awesome honor and privilege that has been bestowed upon every man who has been blessed to have fathered, lived for, and loved…his children. Just ask any man who has ever lost a child and he will openly weep when he thinks and speaks of the times he could have expressed his love for his child, but did not; when he could have listened to their voice, but would not; when he might have reassured them, but did not; when he could have hung out more, played more, defended them more, fought for them more, fought with them less…and then…they were gone. What are you thinking about doing differently where your children are concerned? It’s only too late…when you’ve taken your last breath. Think about it! (Proverbs 23:7)
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