Parents are so much easier on the younger kids!!!
When I was younger, I badly wanted to get my ears pierced...it was a big deal, I begged my parents for years....but the deal was that I had to wait until I was twelve years old, and I had to prove that i was responsible enough to handle it! Well...I was shocked when my parents gave in and let me get them pierced when I was 11!
My little sister came along and got hers pierced when she was 7!
What the heck?!
Seriously...there are many other examples of this! Oldest children around the planet can testify to this! They get later curfus, higher allowances and fewer rules!
I never understood this growing up...and I am sure that I am not alone in this.
It just didn't seem fair!
Matthew 6 has a parable about this....
Here's the gist...
Farmer needs to hire some workers...
He goes into the city early in the morning and asks people to work for him, he offers to pay them a reasonable wage.
He goes back into the city later that morning (when all of the non-morning people had emerged) and asks them to work as well
Same thing at noon
And in the afternoon
The day comes to an end and the farmer pays all of the man the same amount. It is a very fair wage for the men who worked all day and it was generous for everyone else.
NO...this is not fair! But the farmer asks this question of the men who worked all day "Are you envious because I am generous?"
What is so hard for me to wrap my mind around is the idea that the things that are given to other people have zero effect on the things that were given to me. We need to look at the lives and gifts that God has given to us without comparing them to the things that he gave to people around us.
Just like our parents, he has the right to do things differently for different children.
No, that's not fair, but it is right!
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