Mom Heart Moments #331

Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it?

IT IS DIFFICULT TO CHANGE —SCARY, EVEN. Often, we are fearful of current culture and how it might corrupt our children. Really, though, the important issues are still the same as they’ve always been. There might be different wrappings on the outside of teenagers, but the heart is still the main thing: their need for love, affirmation, friends, and purpose, and their desperate need for God to guide them in truth and morality.

I have had to change with the times and learn through much thought and prayer what is of eternal value and what is only a “standard” I used to think was a spiritual code, but really had only a cultural, historical value.

God has never let me just rest or stay still in my life as a parent, marriage partner, or ministry speaker and leader. He always requires new things of me, giving me new lessons and raising new issues of faith. But in the end, as I hold to Him and not to my rules, I find He is faithful and true and good and still reaches hearts as I walk with Him in front of my children. So, I trust Him today, that He has access to each of my children’s souls, and I seek to cultivate a spiritual life, not based on style or fashion or music, but on heart —the part that never changes in its needs or design.

God doesn’t change . . . but everything else does, and so must we, it seems! Is there an area in your life in which you’re resisting change, but sense the Lord might be urging you to move forward? Examine your pet issues to make sure you’re clinging to biblical values and not simply cultural preferences that really don’t matter!