{"id":1721,"date":"2013-11-15T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2014-07-21T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:06:47","slug":"weekly-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/weekly-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up a book entitled “When Good Kids Make Bad Choices”, and I was struck by one of the headings in the book that said,\u00a0“Amazing Grace: Still Amazing”<\/em>.\u00a0 Wow – what a thought!\u00a0 At the end of the day, it’s still the Lord who changes hearts and lives through His Spirit and His amazing grace…\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Another heading that popped out to me in my quick scanning said,\u00a0“Biblically Speaking, There Are No “Good” Kids”.<\/em>\u00a0 I wanted to include a really good quote from this section:\u00a0\u00a0“We have to be very careful about saying, “My child may have made mistakes, but he really is a good boy.”<\/em>\u00a0 As much as we might want to believe that, we need to realize that ultimately, the question of “goodness” doesn’t have to do with what we perceive or think, but whether our child truly has received Christ as his Savior.\u00a0 The Bible teaches that children are not good by nature; they are not a “blank slate” upon which we can write our values; they are not inherently innocent, nor are they genetically predisposed to be good.\u00a0 In fact, the Bible teaches that they are genetically predisposed to be bad because every child is born with original sin and a rebellious nature.\u00a0 This is the picture the Bible paints of our kids (and of us!):<\/p>\n

…the intention of a man’s heart is evil from his youth\u00a0 (Genesis 8:21<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Behold, I\u00a0was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me\u00a0 (Psalm 51:5<\/em>)<\/p>\n

…as it is written:\u00a0 None is righteous, no not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.\u00a0 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one\u00a0 (Romans 3: 10-12<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“These verses might seem hard for us to reconcile with our experience when we gaze upon our little darlings and see their halting attempts to obey us.\u00a0 Unbelieving children may be sweet and compliant on the surface because they’ve learned that compliance is in their best interest and they don’t want to face the consequences of disobedience….Our children need God’s sovereign grace for their nature to be changed.\u00a0 They’ll never become good unless He changes them and then, of course, their goodness is not innate but rather imputed, because they’ve received the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ and are being transformed by the Holy Spirit.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This reading was both a challenge and encouragement to me – as a parent and as an educator.\u00a0 I can easily become frustrated or upset with a young person’s behavior, choices, and actions but with a biblical understanding of our inward and rebellious nature, it is easy to understand why our children\u00a0struggle sometimes.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though we really try to focus on their hearts and not their outward behavior, the fact is we don’t have the power to change their hearts.\u00a0 The fact is, that none of us “deserve” godly kids, because none of us have the power to change their hearts.\u00a0 None of us have been perfectly consistent in loving and disciplining them.\u00a0 And, like us, they are saved by God’s grace alone.\u00a0 This also reminds me to pray more diligently for our students and their parents, as well as my own family.\u00a0 It is so true that God’s grace is “still” AMAZING!<\/p>\n

As we seek to parent and partner together – may God encourage us to love our children and seek to guide and direct them in their pursuit of becoming more like Christ.<\/p>\n

I pray that the Lord will continue to shed His amazing grace on your family and parenting efforts.\u00a0\u00a0“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it”.<\/em><\/p>\n

-Scott Grass,\u00a0\u00a0FCS Superintendent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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