Is It Time to Forgive Your Parents?

The Christian Message of Salvation and Judgment

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People are tired of hearing nothing but doom and despair on the radio. The message of Christianity is that salvation is found in Christ alone, and any who reject Christ therefore forfeit any hope of salvation, any hope of heaven.

The issue is that humanity is in sin, and the wrath of almighty God is hanging over our heads.

They will hear his words, they will not act upon them, and when the floods of divine judgment, when the fires of wrath come, they will be consumed, and they will perish.

God wrapped himself in flesh, condescended, and became a man, died on the cross for sin, was resurrected on the third day, has ascended to the right hand of the Father, where he sits now to make intercession for us.

Jesus is saying there is a group of people who will hear his words, they will act upon them, and when the floods of divine judgment come in that final day, their house will stand.

Growing Up by Honoring Parents

I think a lot of people, they should have an impulse to want to honor their father and mother and to the extent to which they're so bitter at them that they don't, they're just kind of proving themselves to be children still, if that makes sense.

So, I mean, you know that you grow. One of the ways you know that you've grown up is when you get over all your hangups or whatever.

Yeah.

I mean, it's funny. Part of having a sinful nature is that you're predisposed to see only the flaws in other people. So a lot of people, I mean, that's their childhood. All they see is the flaws in their parents.

They're not thankful for them whatsoever, and then they get out on their own for a little bit, and they're filled with bitterness about all the problems of their upbringing and all that kind of stuff.

And then at a certain point, it begins to dawn on them. After they have kids, this wasn't nearly as easy as what they thought.

Yeah.

And then they begin to appreciate their parents more and more, and at a certain point, it's like, well, I guess maybe they're better parents than I was. I mean, I think a lot of people go through that kind of cycle.

But I mean, the quicker you, assuming you're going through that cycle, the quicker you get to the other side. I mean, that's really kind of when you grow up. You quit being a petulant, sinful, bratty, self-centered, entitled kid, where all you can see is the bad or whatever.

So, I mean, I've noticed that about people. A lot of my friends, they just have all this baggage with their parents. It's like, well, my parents weren't perfect, but I don't feel like I have any of that.

I mean, I can see areas where they're not perfect right now. Yeah, they're not perfect. They were never perfect, but I feel like I ever had this just weighed down by all this frustration and all that.

So, yeah, I do think when you grow up, you kind of learn to say, all right, well, I see the good. I don't see all the bad kind of thing.

Parenting Across Generations

Yeah, that's definitely the true. That's been. My experience with having kids is the realization that, man, I actually probably had it really good as a kid with my parents, way more than I ever thought I did when I was a kid with my parents.

You have a whole new generation of parents right now who, everything's so different now in certain ways. But it's funny to be where I'm at in life to where I can see there's a generation of parents coming up after me.

I still have kids in the house, but there's a generation of parents coming up after me. And it's funny to watch them because they're all know-it-alls about their kids. You know, as they've reinvented the wheel at every single point, and their impulses are very different than my parents' impulses.

With my parents, I think my mom would drive around the car breastfeeding a kid while she's driving. And then parents your age, you'll have kids in their car seats until they're like 18 or something, with helmets on or something.

I think it's only 16 and a half.

But then they'll look at people my parents' age as if they have nothing to offer. But then they have all these gluten intolerances and all this food allergies and all these problems. They'll have their kids on these rigid schedules where they can't if they don't get naps, then they're going to lose their mind, and they're all overstimulated and all this kind of stuff.

And so they just have no sense of awareness. Your grandparents, they raised you, and you didn't die. Maybe they have something to contribute here. Now, at the same time, maybe the breastfeeding the kid while you're driving thing wasn't very smart, too.

I was about to say, my father-in-law, he actually told me a story last week, actually, where when he was two when he was growing up, they didn't really have car seats like we have now. And he said when he was two, he ended up going through the front windshield.

I don't know. Maybe we've learned a little bit. Definitely taken it way too far.

Way too far.

Yeah, no, it's true. I think there has to be some way to recognize that all the new impulses.

Aren't just the best.

The science on a lot of these things goes back and forth, too. Should you have your kid on your stomach, or should you have your kid on the back? All that kind of stuff. It just goes back and forth. It's interesting where you have so many

Learning from Parents Without Micromanaging

Young people right now, there's a lot more medical influences on parenting than there used to be to where you're almost crippled with fear without following the doctor's advice from start to finish. But there's certainly lessons.

Just because there's a new technology and new rules and new whatever, your parents have a lot to offer in ways that you don't realize. I'm kind of in between where I'm looking at a lot of things that are happening now, and I kind of chuckle at the stressed out.

The generation of parents I see coming after me, where they're all stressed out in a way that we weren't. But then we were like that to my parents, too. It's funny. You learn certain things along the line, and they can really help you if you let them.

You should let them be a part of your life. You can learn a lot from them even if you don't take everything they say. I mean, a lot of parents, they need to let go, too. They can be kind of overbearing and do what I say and trying to micromanage your relationship in a way that is inappropriate.

But that doesn't mean you just throw your hands up in the air and say, well, it's too much. I'm not even going to try. You keep on pursuing.