23/05/2025
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It didn't take long on my motherhood journey to realize I’m not a “super mom.” Instead, I get stressed and impatient. I’m weak, and I don’t just need help. I need rescue from sin.
Thankfully, the Lord is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin” (Exodus 34:6-7, ESV). God doesn’t have a short fuse; He’s long-suffering with His children, offering second, third and 10th chances … and counting. He waits for us to run to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation (2 Peter 3:9).
How we think about, speak to and behave toward our children matters when …
*A son can’t find his shoes, and everyone else is in the car.
*A daughter takes twice as long to eat her lunch as the rest of her siblings.
*A sleepy toddler needs to be carried halfway through a family walk.
*A child is slower to learn to read than other children.
*A child’s disability limits the family’s activities.
I could display the same love, patience, forbearance and kindness God shows me — or disdain, impatience, rudeness and anger. Either way, how I respond to my child’s full bladder matters.
1 Corinthians 13:4 says, “Love is patient and kind” (ESV). Every day, motherhood offers opportunities to remember our Savior’s patience with us and to extend the same to our children.
What we choose in those moments, all added together, makes a difference in what our children will remember.
-Loving My Children by Katie Faris
In light of God’s patience toward you, how will you display patience today?
