One of the things I find very funny about my three year old is how he sees my relationship with him. On one hand he thinks daddy can do anything, he can fix anything, he can buy anything etc… but at the same time he thinks that I am at his command. It is like “Yes, daddy can do all those things that I can’t, but I am the boss.”
Just because I let him get away with that kind of thinking doesn’t mean that it is ok. I am only waiting for him to grow up and mature and come to realize that I am the head of the house, not him. I am just being patient for now.
Make sure you don’t see God the way my son sees me. There is so much of that mentality out there. Guard your heart. Prayer is not a way of commanding God. It is a way of receiving commandments, if you will. Just like I do with my son, God might let us get away with some things. But that doesn’t make us right. We need to make sure that our attitude lines up with what the Bible teaches. Remember? “you received a Spirit of Sonship” Rom. 8:15, not a Spirit of Lordship.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Mal 1:6
There is a reason why He is called the LORD,
The Cyber Evangelist
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