A difficult child

a difficult childMany decades ago I studied child psychology as part of my nursing diploma. In one study, disrupted children with a variety of problems were considered how to treat them. At that time, they were identified as "difficult children". Nowadays this term is no longer acceptable in the world of teachers and psychologists.

In prayer I often go over my wrong deeds and thoughts and find it necessary to apologize to my Creator. Recently, when I was frustrated with myself in prayer, I called out to my Heavenly Father, "I am an extremely difficult child!" I see myself as someone who always mentally stumbles and falls. Does God see me that way too? «For the Lord your God is with you, a mighty Savior. He will be happy about you and be kind to you, he will forgive you in his love and will be happy with you with exultation »(Zephaniah 3,17).

God is steadfast and unchangeable. If he gets mad at me, I'll be done for. It's what I deserve, but is it how God feels about me? The psalmist says: "Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his goodness endures forever" (Psalm 136,26). We should be grateful that God, whose very essence is love, loves us continuously. He hates our sins. In his infinite love and grace, God gives us, his "difficult" children, forgiveness and redemption: "Among them we all once lived our lives in the desires of our flesh and did the will of the flesh and reason and were children of wrath by nature like the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, in his great love with which he loved us, also made us alive with Christ, who were dead in sin - you are saved by grace - and he raised us with us and instituted in heaven in Christ Jesus »(Ephesians 2,4-6).

God has wonderful plans for you: "For I know well what thoughts I have about you, says the Lord: Thoughts of peace and not of sorrow, that I may give you a future and hope" (Jeremiah 29,11).

Your problems and situations in which you find yourself can be difficult, but not you as a person.

by Irene Wilson