Lately, I’ve been telling my kids they get on my nerves. Although this is true, it’s not always the best thing to tell them. They haven’t really done anything bad. It’s just when I’ve had a long day, I’m tired, I just want to cook dinner and go to bed; they start arguing or cutting each other down and that gets on my nerve.
Because I say things out of anger, I never really know what damage is being done. How will this affect them later on. What I should do is calm down, and later on when we’re laughing explain to them what I don’t like about their behavior towards each other. The bible says be angry but sin not. It also says; a soft answer turns away wrath. Well I have failed at both. However, I’m working on it.
I wonder how much do I get on God’s nerves. Some of you may say he’s all loving, but in the book of Revelations he told the church, that church folk make him sick, they make him want to vomit. My God! Our behavior makes God sick, so before I tell my kids they get on my nerves again, I’m going to draw them with love and kindness.
Besides, there’s some mother out there who wishes she had kids to get on her nerves. There’s some parent out there who had to bury their child. I’ve purposed in my heart I’m going to watch what I say to my kids no matter what. And, thank God he gave me a revelation of how I make him feel at times. The bible says blessings and cursing should not come out of the same mouth. We curse our own kids when we don’t speak life into them. We curse our own kids when we don’t speak the promises of God in them. Church is not the place for them to start hearing it, home is. My kids are my first ministry and if I fail at that, then what the purpose of the rest.
Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.
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