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Respect
I have tremendous respect for mothers.
Mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, aunts
Every woman who plays a role in raising kids in the family.
I have a special place in my heart for single moms.
I was raised by the women in my family.
My parents divorce was final the week of my 2nd birthday.
My sister was 5, going on 6.
My dad split.
No involvement, no financial support.
He had several affairs during their 10-yr.
marriage.
He had his issues and moved on.
We moved back to Wichita to be close to my grandparents.
My mom went to work as a secretary at a TV station.
She never made much money.
We depended on help from my grand parents, financial and otherwise.
We lived in a little 2-bdrm apt at first, then a little cracker-box of a house where I grew up.
On her way to work she’d drop me off at my grandparents house.
Breakfast then off to school.
My grandfather was still working and gone a lot.
My great grandmother was still alive and played a role in parenting us.
My great grandfather had died shortly after we moved back to Wichita.
My mom handled pretty much everything.
She had to.
She’d pick me and my sister up after work, fix dinner, it was very basic, she didn’t have the time or energy.
Homework, favorite TV shows, brushing our teeth, and bedtime were all on my mom.
And, one other thing.
Discipline.
There was no, “Wait till your father gets home!”
There was no father getting home.
She did a good job w/ us, not perfect, but who is?
She was tired.
Sometimes disciplined us out of fatigue and anger and it wasn’t pretty.
Wasn’t abusive.
Just intense.
and anger and it wasn’t pretty.
Wasn’t abusive.
Just intense.
W/ our kids, when we made them wait to discipline them they tell us the waiting was almost as bad as the spanking.
Yes, we spanked our kids.
We are advocates of loving discipline like that.
W/ Sara and me, she almost always handled whatever discipline she needed to handle.
She didn’t need to wait for me.
Once in a rare occasion she did.
There were some times that dad needed to be dad.
So, they had to wait.
One time, our daughter had to wait but it wasn’t intentional.
Sara and Alyssa were out shopping and Alyssa did something, got in trouble, and Sara told her that was going to get spanked when they got home.
Sara wasn’t going to do that in public.
So, they get home, Alyssa goes to her room to wait while Sara goes to unload the groceries.
After a relatively short time, maybe 15 or 20 minutes, Sara was like, “Where’s Alyssa?”
She forgot.
What parent hasn’t?
She goes to look for her and finds her in her room, on her bed waiting for mom to come in and spank her.
Sara felt bad that she forgot.
But, still had to punish her.
I’m sure Alyssa was wondering.
Maybe hoping mom forgot the whole thing.
To a child, 15 or 20 minutes is forever.
Maybe mom got busy and has forgotten the whole thing.
Maybe she didn’t mean it.
Maybe I’m not in that much trouble.
Maybe she changed her mind.
Maybe she was wrong to threaten me.
Maybe,...
Then here comes mom.
Did your parents ever forget to punish you?
A long time ago, God promised to punish, once and for all, all unfaithful disobedience.
Again, a long time ago.
Maybe He forgot.
Maybe He didn’t mean it.
Maybe He changed His mind.
Maybe the men who said He would do this, and wrote that He would, misheard Him, or made it up on their own and they were wrong.
If that’s true, then they are wrong about other things they wrote about.
And, if that’s true, then we shouldn’t believe anything that’s in the bible.
Nor, waste our time trying to obey it.
It’s been a long time and nothing has happened toward God doing what Jesus, Paul, Peter, Luke, John, Matthew, Mark, and others communicated to us.
Maybe it’s not going to happen.
So, then, maybe it’s not so important that we stick so tightly to what the Bible says.
Maybe...
God hasn’t forgotten.
He hasn’t changed His mind.
Paul and the others didn’t get it wrong.
God’s timing is always perfect.
While we wait it is important for us to maintain our faithful obedience to everything in the Bible.
Nobody is getting away w/ anything.
There are benefits to being a member of God’s family.
There are also responsibilities.
Don’t become impatient and abandon your responsibilities as part of God’s family looking for the benefits of other families.
He will deliver on everything He has promised.
For the church members in the Thessalonian church, they had their own reasons for thinking maybe Paul had been wrong.
A number of influential ppl around them were encouraging them to abandon their faith in and obedience to Jesus.
This letter had been written by Paul in the early 50s, just 20 years after Jesus’ death and res.
From that moment forward they believed they were living in the end times and Jesus would return any day to take them to Heaven.
But, there they were.
The persecution was intense.
The temptation to give up on the fledgling organization was strong.
Maybe it had happened and the had missed it.
That was their fear.
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