Life is a learning process, isn’t it? We don’t stop learning when we become an adult. I find that I learn every day. Hopefully something new every day. Often a new revelation of truth but also learning how to walk a life pleasing to God. That means I will often receive correction, from God, and even from others.It’s not always easy to receive correction but it is a good thing. It helps us to mature. It helps us to grow in the likeness of Christ. How do we receive instruction? By keeping a soft and tender heart.
To keep a tender heart toward our husbands is the blessing of a good marriage. The Bible tells us that divorce happens through the “hardness of heart” (Matthew 19:6-9). We must always guard against a hard heart.
To keep a tender heart is the blessing of a peaceful life.
To keep a tender heart leads us to righteousness. Hebrews 12:11 (HCSB) says: “No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
We train our children by instruction and discipline. But we are also continually trained as we receive instruction and correction.
I love the TPT translation which says: “Now all discipline seems to be more pain than pleasure at the time, yet later it will produce a TRANSFORMATION OF CHARACTER, bringing a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who yield to it.”
Don’t you love those words? TRANSFORMATION OF CHARACTER! Do you want this for your own life? Do you want this for your children’s lives? I know we all do. It comes with YIELDING— yielding to the disciplines of life, instruction from the Word, and correction from people in our lives.
Let’s keep soft and tender hearts.
Love from Nancy Campbell
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One day we will live in a world where there is no sin. What a glorious day that will be. But we don’t live there yet. We live in a world of unrighteousness. Deception and corruption are all around us, from our government on downwards. Unrighteousness creeps into our homes and even our hearts.
There is only one Scripture in the Bible where it says that there is no law to stop you! You’re free! Not a person can stop you, except yourself.
The Greek word for teacher in the Bible is “didaskalos.” However, when the Bible tells the older women to be “teachers of good things” to the younger women, the word used is “kalodidaskalos.” This word means to be not only a teacher but a teacher of lovely and beautiful things.
We often forget that when a mother aborts a baby, or even stops the life of another baby coming into the world through contraception, it is not only one baby she stops! It is a dynasty! For that baby will most likely grow up to get married and have babies and her children will have babies and continue down the generations.
Do you find it hard to trust the Lord? The Hebrew word for trust also includes the meaning of hope. It is not a constant anxiety but a confident expectation!
Are you shining in your home today? A shining mother is a smiling mother.
Home-teaching, home-nurturing mothers, never underestimate the power of what you are doing. You are fulfilling the most influential career. And God is with you and on your side.
A WIFE’S MISSION
Yesterday we talked about how we and our children must be grounded in the faith. For a few months? For a few years? No, we must be steadfast until the end.
I have been amazed to discover how much the New Testament exhorts us to stand strong and not waver, to be steadfast, and to hold fast to that which we have learned. As I looked up all these Scriptures, I found 25 different Greek words that are used to instruct us in this godly attribute. I won’t bog you down with them all in this post but let me give you some Scriptures.
The value you put on your table will impact your children. The way you set your table will affect the behavior of your children at the table.
Your marriage is your first priority. What you pour into your marriage will never be wasted. It is a sacred covenant because it is the picture of Christ and His bride.
At our family devotions this morning, Colin asked us to sing, “Burn, fire of God.” It’s amazing how he thinks of hymns he may not have sung since his single days. I will type the words for you below as they are so powerful and there are so many references to Scripture in the words of the hymn.