Check out this video. (sorry, I’m having trouble embedding videos onto my blog, so I had to provide a link)
My son is only 10 months old, but I can already see that he loves it when I show him that I’m proud of what he’s done. He beams with pride when I am excited about his accomplishments.
Children need their parents’ support. They need us to be proud of their achievements. They need us to get down in the dirt and play. Be made to look silly sometimes. Sacrifice time, resources, energy, and our free time…to attend one of their games…one of their dance competitions…to play in the back yard…to teach them how to ride a bike…how to drive a car. In short, they need us to love them.
Isn’t that what God did?
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. –Philippians 2:3-11
