Finding the balance of loving our children without worshipping them as idols.
Isaiah 3God gave them three warning signs that their nation was crumbling:Weak, absent menHaughty, covetous womenChildren were in charge
In many cases, food from the LORD and fellowship is viewed as optional because it hides behind family time and family values.
The business of an idol is to normalize deviancy. Something that would’ve bothered me five years ago doesn’t anymore.
How to get back to the right balance:Reinstate the right ruler. Place God in first place over your house, not family values.Return to the manual’s view of children — precious, but sinners. Differentiate between child-likeness and childishness.Reject secular culture’s approach of leaving children to their own nature.Lovingly and constantly intervene with the children.
3 questions to determine if you may be idolizing your children:Would I reject, out of hand, a change in my place of vocation because of my children?How much of my children’s lifestyle was purchased with resources that could’ve, or should’ve, gone into some part of the LORD’s work?Do I fear the disapproval of my kids more than I fear the disapproval of the LORD?
2 signs that you may be convicted about an idol:An irrational fear coming over you about change.The message of conventional wisdom coming to mind. (i.e. Saying “nobody lives that way.”)Any time we nudge God off the throne, we never worship nothing — we worship something else.
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