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By Jim Rannells
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Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
That if we are to react to a situation with “rashness”, especially with our children, we are NOT following that mandate listed above.
A good example of this is how I handled a situation about 3 years ago with my young son. An example that stays with me in remembrance to this day.
While meeting with a Christian friend for coffee at a local Convenience Store in town, I got a call from my wife. On the phone, she said that [my then] 18-year son had broken a window at our house in his anger. My first thought was to rush home and essentially respond to his anger with my own and probably accuse him of a lot that I would later regret. Of course, in my rashness I wanted to think the worst and I figured the window he broke was the big $1200 picture window that we had just installed in our living room.
The Lord seemed to suggest that I should pray about this dilemma with my Christian friend and we did just that. My whole demeanor changed immediately after that prayer and I drove the 5 blocks to my home really concerned that my son had not cut himself in breaking the window.
I can still picture to look on my son’s face when I arrived at our home. It was really a look of amazement as I usually handled situations like this in anger. He said “Aren’t you going to yell at me, Dad?” It turned out that the window he had broken was a small one our back porch and we agreed to share the cost of fixing it.
That verse above ended up being a solid verse to me from that very day. We can handle situations rashly OR we can let our gentleness be known to all, especially to our children we are called by God to raise.
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