Reading Exodus slowly with my kids has massively helped me to understand it myself.
While God is giving Moses all those careful descriptions of the tabernacle & of Aaron's role as priest, Aaron's down below making a golden calf. The sheer pathos of it.
While God is giving Moses all those careful descriptions of the tabernacle & of Aaron's role as priest, Aaron's down below making a golden calf. The sheer pathos of it.
But rather than scrapping Aaron & picking another priest, God nonetheless ordains him. It reminds me of Peter denying Christ 3 times & *still* being a rock on which Christ would build his church.
God uses miserable failures like us.
God uses miserable failures like us.
Fellow parents: it's worth reading the Bible with your kids. You don't have to understand it completely before you try. You might find you understand it better afterwards. We don't have all the answers, but we do have the word of life. So, let's share it with our kids.
To do that, we'll need to have a lot of "adult" conversations. We'll need to talk about things like sex & death & rape & murder. The Bible looks our sin in the face. But it also gives us hope. What if instead of trying to protect our kids from hard ideas we tried to equip them?
And just remember: according to Jesus, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it. So, we might learn more from reading the Bible with our kids than they learn from us.
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