Transcript
Parents, your children really do need God's law. But as a parent, you just can't ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish. I think it's one of the big mistakes that all of us make as parents. Think about this. If rules and regulations could change the heart of your child and produce in your child the willingness to submit to God and do what is right, Jesus would have never had to come. Everything we say we believe argues against that.
The Law Reveals but Cannot Change
You see, the law is important because the law has a wonderful ability to reveal the sin, weakness, and failure in your child. The law is a beautiful guide for everyday living, but the law has no power whatsoever to change the heart of your child, to rescue a child from himself and so, your parenting needs to be infused, driven by grace.
Now, make sure you understand this. Grace never calls wrong right. If wrong were right, there would be no need for grace. But grace moves toward that struggling, rebellious, disobeying child with love and tenderness and hope and forgiveness and wisdom and guidance. You see, the most powerful force of transformation in the universe is God's grace. It can do what rules and regulations will never do in the heart of your child. Your parenting needs to be dyed with grace.
