How Parents Provoke Their Children
Shade is 30 years old. She has completed her master degree program in Business Administration and receives a huge salary at her place of work. She’s okay and ripe for marriage, but she is cautious because most of the men asking her out are only after her money and body. Regardless of this, her parents won’t give her rest of mind. They kept comparing her with her mates, telling her that they need to carry their grandchild like many of their neighbors.
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They told her to bring a man home to be called her husband. They even gave her a fixed date for that, and threatened to disown her if she didn’t comply. Due to this pressure, Shade began to lose concentration at work, and as soon as the next young man proposed to her, she accepted with excitement. The two of them met each other’s parents, but unknown to Shade and her family, the people the man claimed were his parents weren’t his parents but partners in crime.
The relationship had hardly started when the man started demanding sex from her as a show of her love for him. Shade wasn’t pleased with the idea but because of her parents’ consistent pressure for quick marriage, she consented to it.
After many months of sex, Shade began to get thin and sickly, things started going bad for her, and before she and parents could discover what was going on, the young man had already succeeded in his mission of using the poor lady for money ritual.
“Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.” Colossians 3:21It is a pity today that many parents are pushing their children into doing what isn’t right in order to satisfy themselves, claiming that it is best for their children, not knowing that they’re putting their children’s life and future into danger.
The Bible admonishes parents not to provoke their children. When we pressure our children into error, or act harshly towards them for our selfish end, we provoke them contrary to the will of God.
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MEDITATION:
Living your life under provocation and pressure will not help you but mislead you into doing what isn’t right.
PRAYER:
Dear God, help me so that provocation and pressure won’t be the directors of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
CONFESSION:
I refuse to be provoked or pressured into doing what ought not to be done as from now on.