It’s an age-old complaint from parents. You feel devalued when you’re only called on when your child needs something.
Most of us are usually there anyway, the lack of interest in us otherwise an often stab to the heart. But we love them anyway and our love has no bounds.
We hope that they will want to stick around after their crisis is averted. We long to have day to day relationships with them. But very often it’s sporadic and need-based, especially as they get older. They get busy. They set priorities. They hang on to old hurts.
Are you the parent of such a child?
With four grown kids, I’ve been that parent and it’s not easy. But this isn’t about our children at all.
This is about US as children of God.
How often do we go to Him when we are in a mess? We pray for His help because we don’t know who else to turn to? We have every intention of remaining close to Him after the storm is over but we get busy and don’t feel like we need Him as much.
We are that same child, only calling upon Jesus when we stumble but forgetting our need for Him once we are out of the pit.
We should strive to remain with Him always, in the good times as well as the bad.
But as for me, I will sing about your power. EACH MORNING I will sing with joy about your unfailing love. For you have been my refuge, a place of safety when I am in distress. – Psalms 59:16
Each morning…the good ones, the bad ones, the quiet ones, the busy ones…
He is never absent in our lives. We should never be absent in His.
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