This tract, adapted from Paul David Tripp’s book Parenting, encourages parents to demonstrate godly patience and gentle correction on their daily mission of raising children.Merciful Parenting Under a Merciful GodIntroductionOne of the biggest errors Christian parents can make is allowing themselves to forget. If we allow ourselves to forget the...
This tract, adapted from Paul David Tripp’s book Parenting, encourages parents to demonstrate godly patience and gentle correction on their daily mission of raising children.
Merciful Parenting Under a Merciful God
Introduction
One of the biggest errors Christian parents can make is allowing themselves to forget. If we allow ourselves to forget the daily unmerited mercies we receive from our Father, then it will become easier not to parent with mercy. No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that she desperately needs it herself.
Mercy is tenderheartedness and compassion toward someone in need. Our children are just that—needy. They need guidance and protection, help and rescue, wisdom and instruction, confrontation and discipline, patience and grace, love and compassion, support and provision, and they need to see God and themselves with accuracy. Because of this, our primary calling as parents is not first to represent God’s judgment but rather to deliver his mercy always.
Parenting is working to make the invisible mercy of God visible as we respond with mercy toward our children. Hebrews 4:14–16 explains to us exactly what this looks like. Jesus was willing to subject himself to the hardships of life in this fallen world and to be tempted in all the ways that we are so that he would be an understanding high priest, able to sympathize with our weaknesses. The word for “weaknesses” in verse 15 is used elsewhere in the Bible to refer to different kinds of weakness. Jesus is able to sympathize with our human frailty. Because he can sympathize with us, we can rest assured that he will bless us with mercy that is form-fitted for the need of the moment.................................
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This tract, adapted from Paul David Tripp’s book Parenting, encourages parents to demonstrate godly patience and gentle correction on their daily mission of raising children.Merciful Parenting Under a Merciful GodIntroductionOne of the biggest errors Christian parents can make is allowing themselves to forget. If we allow ourselves to forget the...
This tract, adapted from Paul David Tripp’s book Parenting, encourages parents to demonstrate godly patience and gentle correction on their daily mission of raising children.
Merciful Parenting Under a Merciful God
Introduction
One of the biggest errors Christian parents can make is allowing themselves to forget. If we allow ourselves to forget the daily unmerited mercies we receive from our Father, then it will become easier not to parent with mercy. No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that she desperately needs it herself.
Mercy is tenderheartedness and compassion toward someone in need. Our children are just that—needy. They need guidance and protection, help and rescue, wisdom and instruction, confrontation and discipline, patience and grace, love and compassion, support and provision, and they need to see God and themselves with accuracy. Because of this, our primary calling as parents is not first to represent God’s judgment but rather to deliver his mercy always.
Parenting is working to make the invisible mercy of God visible as we respond with mercy toward our children. Hebrews 4:14–16 explains to us exactly what this looks like. Jesus was willing to subject himself to the hardships of life in this fallen world and to be tempted in all the ways that we are so that he would be an understanding high priest, able to sympathize with our weaknesses. The word for “weaknesses” in verse 15 is used elsewhere in the Bible to refer to different kinds of weakness. Jesus is able to sympathize with our human frailty. Because he can sympathize with us, we can rest assured that he will bless us with mercy that is form-fitted for the need of the moment.................................
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