“Could You Be Provoking Your Child to Anger Without Realizing It?” October 5
Why are so many children angry?
We see it in stores, schools, families, and sometimes in our own homes.
Of course, children are responsible for their own choices. Even the best parenting cannot guarantee that a child will respond rightly.
But Ephesians 6 gives parents a sobering warning:
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath.”
Which raises an uncomfortable question:
Could we be provoking our children without even realizing it?
Sometimes the problem isn’t the rules themselves. It may be inconsistency, hypocrisy, marital conflict, selfishness, or expecting one standard from our children while living by another ourselves.
Children notice more than we think.
And Ephesians 6 doesn’t stop with parenting.
Paul moves from the home to the workplace and then to a battlefield, telling believers to “put on the whole armor of God.”
That can sound mysterious or even mystical.
But what does it actually mean?
How do you put on the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, or the helmet of salvation before you walk out the door tomorrow morning?
It may be much more practical than you think.
