I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want most for my kids and who I hope they become. Image bearers of God and good stewards of all they are given. I want them to love to Jesus. Know Jesus. Be Jesus’ hands and feet to those around them. I want them to be kind to everyone. Love everyone. Celebrate the beauty of all people, as they too are made in the image of God.
It is my prayer that their hearts would seek out the lonesome and be a friend. That they would support the impoverished right up to the shirt on their back. That they would speak up for the oppressed. Defend the meek. Come alongside the weak. I want them to follow God’s lead, wherever that takes them, and be salt and light in their community.
As their mama, I pray that I don’t instill in them anything beyond those desires. That I would be a good steward of their sponge like brains and help them to become all of those things I hope and pray for them. I am humbled to think about the responsibility that is and empowered to know that God is in this journey with me; completely in control and capable of working through and despite of my own shortcomings.
This world feels pretty broken right now. I’m thankful to have a God who cares enough about us to give us a new generation. A generation of warriors for His kingdom. For peace among peoples. A generation who can know better and therefore do better. I’m thankful to know that while a bunch of broken sinners parent that new generation, they can begin to learn more, know better, and do better. I pray that I can be the parent that leads in words and actions. Set an example of godly stewardship over all that has been entrusted to me and generously and graciously love on those around me. I pray I will continue to learn what it means to be the person I hope my kids become. Knowing better and doing better. In love and humility.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may ruleover the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. - Genesis 1:26-27
