DECEMBER 19
MATTHEW 7:27_and the floods came…
If the rain continues relentlessly, watch out for floods. Like many things in life, too much rain is not a good thing.
Very young children learn mostly from experience. They also learn from instruction, but there is only so much their young minds can absorb.
You may be in the process of teaching them not to play so close to the edge of the porch. If they persist, it is because they don’t completely understand. For the strong-willed, it may be they don’t believe there is a problem. The strong-willed enjoy playing close to the edge. Without any form of discipline to enforce your warnings the inevitable is bound to happen. They fall off the edge and experience pain and fear. What the young mind couldn’t or wouldn’t comprehend was learned by association – with pain and fear. For the strong-willed that may not be a bad way to learn. This does not mean strong-willed children are bad. We need them! They just require a lot of training from parents.
When you’ve reached your teen years the edges in life can be a lot more dangerous. To give up the kind of play you enjoy might cause rain in your life. To experience pain and fear is more like a flood. If you submit to the advice of the people who love you, some floods will never occur.
As you grow you will encounter far more dangerous situations than falling off a porch.
Move from soil to the Rock while you’re young.
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, Help me learn from the rains so I won’t have many floods! In the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
Christ can teach me through rain—He saves me in floods!
The Works of Her Hands 