Transcript
It's so important in the press of everyday life, in the busyness of everyday parenting to keep the big picture in view, and here's the big picture. What in life could be more important than to be one of God's tools for the forming of a human soul?
Placed on Site by God
Let that sink in, that God has placed you on site as a parent to form the most significant thoughts and desires and choices in the heart and life of a child, to help a child get to know God's world and what it's all about; and you can't let anything get in the way of that.
Your possessions can get in the way of that because they can become more important than they actually are and create tension in the life of you and your children. Or work success can take you away and demand so much time and effort and energy. Or even ministry commitments can get in the way of this significant, valuable thing.
If you're a parent, maybe you ought to write on a card: Nothing is more important in my life than to be God's tool of the forming of a human soul. You take that to your mirror that you look at every morning, so that you keep the big picture in mind; so that everyday, you parent your children with a sense of the holiness and the importance of the thing to which God has called you as a parent.
