It is the Christmas season once more. This season is all about gratitude, meaning being glad and happy for receiving something you don't deserve. Most parents think they are grateful for their child. However, very few parents are truly grateful for their child. Children were valued in biblical times, but today, they are taken for granted and are the butt of complaints and abuse from adults. Most parents in America hate their children, and most adults who aren't parents hate children, period.
How were children valued in biblical times? Children were not seen as sweet and innocent in biblical times. They were either seen as convicting figures due to their vulnerable place in society, or else were seen as forbidden attraction figures (by adult men mostly). Children were seen in biblical times as extensions of God, meaning convicting deities of their own, with children being referred to in endearing format as "my little god" or "my little goddess". Fathers, of course, took "goddess" another way, but even then, that was only in masturbatory fantasy. That fantasy simply made father and daughter best companions. Children's cries and upsets convicted 1st Century Christian parents, striking reverent fear and terror into parents, prompting them to submit to the cries of their children and provide nourishment and sustenance. Ancient Israel and the Early Church were child worshipping societies, not child sacrificing societies, in the ancient world.
Gratitude does not come in a vacuum. Gratitude is a fruit of Christian love, with Christian love being denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to, in the context of parenting, prioritizing children first, and yourself last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return, valuing children as extensions of God. True Love does not come from pride or desire, but from fearful conviction, where parents heed the warning that they are a depraved and decadent sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing, from children or anyone else. This prompts the sinner/parent to pay due penance by serving their children's every vulnerable need.
"Expecting absolutely nothing in return" implies expecting nothing, period, which is what leads to gratitude. This includes gratitude towards children. Parents are deserving of absolutely nothing from children, and are undeserving of their child him/herself, as a parent is a depraved and decadent sinner who is get down on their knees and thank God for all the joy that their child brings them - because God could just roll it all back at any time, and he surely does for some parents. Sadly, only then are most parents grateful for their children - when they lose a child, due to premature death or kidnapping.
When you take the attitude that you are deserving of absolutely nothing from your child, and are undeserving of even having a child, you start to count your blessings and be grateful for everything your child brings you, expecting absolutely nothing in return for serving your child's every vulnerable need. Thus, it is good to take an undeserving attitude towards your child, because then, you don't ask too much of your child.
I myself am a depraved and decadent sinner/adult who is deserving of absolutely nothing from children, and is undeserving of a child in my life. I am a sinful wretch who is deserving of nothing but DEATH and PUNISHMENT merely for existing as an adult in relation to children. I am grateful for the trust and forgiveness that I receive from children in relation to my existence as an adult, as I deserve absolutely none of it. I deserve absolutely nothing, period, and deserve everything that is coming to me, as I am a depraved and decadent adult abuser of children. We all have abused children, as depraved and decadent adults, in some way, in some form, and thus we deserve everything coming to us for our entitlement in relation to children.
The parent entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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