Title: Love your children
love your child
beautiful home 5.
“Then he got up and went back to his father, but he was still a long way off. When his father saw him, he had compassion on him, and ran to him, hugged him and kissed him. The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. I will.” (Luke 15:20-21)
No matter how many years have passed, there is a biblical parable that touches everyone. That is the parable of the prodigal son in the text. The vivid description that does not feel like a parable is like a picture, so it unfolds to us as if it were an event that Jesus actually experienced and saw. We want to see what kind of person a true parent should be toward their children through this text. Jesus Christ wanted to show how much God loves lost souls through all of this, the love of a father waiting for his son when he left home in a far-flung prodigy.
]
However, our interest is that through this wonderful love of our Heavenly Father, we indirectly read what the Lord wants us to be as parents. The father pictured in the text was the father who gave the property even when the second son asked for it, and waited until this child went away and finally returned to himself. What we see here is a Father who expects of us personal faith. The father has both power and power, so he would not have been able to leave his father's house at all unless he had a strong servant to protect him from escaping, and taking all money and sharing his inheritance. However, the father did not want the relationship between father and child to become a relationship amidst impersonal oppression.
So it's not the right thing to do what he wants to do, but it's permission. Just because God did it, doesn't mean we should do it to our children. We are just learning a principle here. Just as God wanted the relationship of faith for us to be a personal relationship, we should do it for our children. God wanted personal relationships in family relationships. Therefore, we also need to teach our children to be patient and wait so that they can realize for themselves and return to personal relationships.
The second is the love this father has for his children. The son left far away, wasted all his father's fortune, and lived a lavish life, becoming a ruined human being. Still, my father was waiting. Always looking out of Dong-gu, he must have been waiting for his son to come. But in the end, the son had nothing to eat, so he tried to eat even the salty fruit he gave to the pigs. He was walking toward the neighborhood from outside Dong-gu, and the first thing he found was not his son but his father. Then the incomprehensible behavior follows. His father saw him and ran away. Then they hugged her neck and kissed her. This was not a behavior suitable for a father. Jesus intentionally introduced the image of the Father, which was rare even at that time, into this. That is why God's love shows us that it is different from the image of the Father, which has been hardened in the fallen human society.
At the heart of his father's heart that made him do all these things was compassion. What does it mean to be compassionate? Surprisingly, the word used here is the same word used in Matthew 9:35ff. “When Jesus saw the crowds, he was grieved.” The Greek word and the word 'have compassion' in the text are exactly the same, without a single letter difference. ?σπλαγχν?σθη (Esfranknisde). It means to be touched until the intestines shake. It shows what kind of heart the Lord had when he saw the wandering and suffering crowd like sheep that lost their shepherd. It is like a father's heart being ripped apart, the pain that can no longer be expressed is desperately felt when he sees his child.
How great was this father's pity, and the word ?σπλαγχν?σθη (esplancknisde) that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 9, who expressed his heartbreaking pain, was used as it is. Until the very end, have compassion for, expect, and believe in the child, and no matter what the child did wrong, when you can suffer the physical and spiritual state of suffering you are currently facing rather than the process of wrongdoing. All things are capable of exerting power
So, we need to ask whether parents have God-like disposition toward their children through this parable of the prodigal son. You can teach, you can reprove, you can correct, you can train in righteousness, you can do all things, and you need all of them. But all of them should be on one basis. It is a heart of compassion for children, a heart of pity. You must become a person who can wait for your child until the very end. That mind is the mind of ?σπλαγχν?σθη (Esfranknisde).
One last thing to think about, now finally my son says: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.” This child came to realize that God is alive on the path of debauchery and depravity. So it is confession of sin. The strange thing is that there is no answer from the father to his son's confession. The father didn't want to hear this desperate confession of his sins, but he was so happy with the relationship he had with his son when he came back. And the father shows forgiveness. In the same way, we must constantly forgive our children. So, no matter how many mistakes we make, in the end, when we realize that there is the love of our parents that forgives us and forgives us, we come to know the love of God that forgives our sins infinitely through the image of those parents.
No matter how broken, disobedient, or contrary to expectations, we must try to see traces of the image of God in them. So you have to wait and be patient with your children. For that, as parents, we need God's grace. With patience and perseverance every day, instead of raising them like my own children, I have to take responsibility for the Lord's children and take care of them like a nanny, waiting for so long and forgiving. 2010-05-19