God's Good Gifts!
"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your Father who
is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!"
Matthew 7: 11
In this sentence, Jesus acknowledged the inherent sinfulness
of the human heart. He plainly called us “evil.” As he knew the
truth of Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
Yet Jesus also knew there is still common grace in the world.
There's some goodness in most parents. It is natural to want
to care for our children and meet their needs.
Our Lord’s primary point is God’s care for us. If we, fallen
humanity, want to care for our children and give them good
things, how much greater is God’s desire for us? He is the
perfect, sinless, eternal, infinite Father—our Abba Father.
But there is a secondary point as well. As followers of Christ,
we must realize the urgency of meeting our children’s needs
and giving them what is best. They are God’s blessing to us,
and they need all the patience, prayers, and Bible verses we
can give them.
"Each day of our lives we make deposits
in the memory banks of our children."
Chuck Swindoll
