“Among the things that are so simple even a child can operate them are parents.” – Unknown
That wasn’t my statement, but it sure brought back memories. Dad would never want me on that bulldozer, but the brat was persistent. Dad didn’t want me on that skidder, working in the woods with French Canadians, but the youngest of eight was uncontrollable. Yes, there were many times I operated them.
The Biblical case was Sampson.
Judges 14:1-3
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”
Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”
And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
Are your kids operating you? Give it some thought, for that’s not God’s design for the structure of the family.
Gary