This is why raising kids is so hard. Not only are we meeting them where they are in the season of life they are in and being constantly aware of the daily growing, changing, and becoming they are going through.
Pause and breathe…
But we are battling generational DNA. Emotional behaviors, mental processes, physical realities, and personal sin are all strung in their DNA.
Biblically, God directs attention to this throughout the Old Testament. Thankfully, God gave us the answer in the New Testament by way of Jesus Christ.
The reality: We are related. That parent, grandparent, relative of some kind is blood. Nothing we can do can change that. And when we grow a baby that blood line is inherently passed down.
The Good News: We are individuals. We, as adults, may see the similarities that can lead us down the wrong path, but we have learned to make a change. To use the hereditary nuisance as a standing foundation to all things new. We, as parents, get to train our kid(s) to do the same. Even if that means seeing something in their parents that could lead them down a wrong path.
Pause and breathe…
Our children are individually unique although they are born into our family. Through the personal gift of salvation they are/can be individually saved and, therefore, reborn into a new family.
The Simple Truth: Our child has DNA passed to them, AND they are washed in the DNA of God Almighty through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. They are us, they are their grandparents, they are generational, AND they are individually loved, uniquely created, and personally washed anew.
It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. And God chose you and I to be the mother’s of our children. That’s cool.
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