Do You Have a Prodigal?

 

Me:  What a nice park!

Prodigal:  Yes, I am enjoying it.

Me:  Today we are talking about a Prodigal.

Prodigal:  Hahaha, I love it!

 

This is from the book Parenting From Surviving To Thriving by Charles Swindoll

Be willing to surrender the entire matter to the Lord, which will free you from a lot of worry and allow you the freedom to release your child.  Until he or she feels free from your hostility, your guilt, your expectations, or any other controlling attitudes, you will prolong the estrangement.  Let me repeat these three words forcefully:  release your child.

Be willing to wait for the Lord to change your child without your feeling the need to stop in and hurry the process along.  If your child is too distracted by your reproving, instructing voice, he or she will be too distracted to notice the heart surgery God wants to do within them.  Making them good is God’s great goal for all of us.  To borrow a line from Ruth Graham, your job is to love your child; it’s God’s job to make him or her good.  Wait for the Lord.  Let it be.  God wants your son or daughter good even more than you do!

 

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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