She's no angel

The baby that's sleeping here is no angel, Paul said " for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Roman 3:23 and the "for all" includes everyone even this innocent and cute child.

As Christian Parent, we believed that all the things that we had are a blessing from God and are His Grace to us. So it's natural that we would say grace before we had our meal and thank Him for the things we have. For a long time, we had taken for granted for her saying grace during her meal time. Yesterday night, during her time for milk, she just refused to say it and even threw a big temper. Took us 1 hour of trying and one beating (explanation: I didn't beat her due to not saying grace but for throwing her temper and screaming). We kept our stand till the end (at times I must say I really wanna give in to her, but when I do that I know all would be lost). When she's ready for bed after her milk she just refused to say goodnight to me, kissed me and hugged me (I think it's her way of revenge). But I let it go without letting it affect me.... much.

This morning the same thing happened again. She asked for her daily morning milk (Which I insisted that we only give when she asked for it), and once again refused to say her grace. It's another session of tug of war (She really chosed a good time for doing that cos both times we might give in to her as we are either tired and wanted to go to bed or in a rush to go to work). We stick to our principal and in the end before I leave for work she finally agreed to say grace. When I leave for work she punished me again by not saying good bye, kissing and hugging me (which she usually does).

Lesson learnt
Have learnt quite alot from this incident about how God had been to us.
We are like Leah, constantly trying to be defiant as we wanna do the things that we want and like. But at times those things that we want/like to do is dangerous and harmful to us if it's not for His grace and mercy we would have crease to exist.

1) The bible is right by saying that we are all sinners, we do not want to acknowledge him in anyway and chose to go the other way(it even happened to a mere 20Mth old child).
2) How could god be God if he is not gracious, merciful and righteous to His creation. Cos he didn't strike us down immediately when we opposed Him. Instead he gave us chance again and again to repent and come to Him. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" Matthew 11:28