Teenagers Are People Too by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer [MEYER, JOYCE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL000000
ISBN: 9780446554473
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2008-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

Right Relationship with Your Parents

After God, the next relationship in your life that should be solid is your relationship with your parents.

Perhaps your parents have problems and are not doing their part to develop and nurture a right relationship with you. You cannot do anything about what others are not doing, but you can decide to do your part. God will bless you for it.

Friends are important, but I encourage you not to put your friends before your family. Most of the people you give your life to today won't even be around in a few more years, but your family will.

If you don't develop and nurture your relationships with your family members, you may be disappointed someday to discover that you need them, but if they are willing to help you at all, it will only be out of a sense of obligation, not out of love.

Our family is very close. When any member has a need, all the others are quick to run to meet that need. Sometimes we are so eager to support one another that it is almost ridiculous.

For example, the last time I was in the hospital, I went in at 6:00 A.M. for some outpatient procedures. My husband, whom I expected to go with me, did so. But besides Dave, all my children, most of their spouses, my brother and two of my best friends all went with me. We looked rather odd coming to the hospital at six o'clock in the morning in this large group. I am sure people must have thought that I had something really seriously wrong with me to draw this many people out that early. Actually, it was a minor surgical procedure, but my entire family insisted on being there.

The man who handled my registration asked if all those people were my family. When I said yes, he said, “That is really nice; we don't see much of that these days.”

My family's decision to be there with my husband and me was based on the years we have had building good relationships and on the fact that we are always there for any of them when they need us.

Too often we expect something from others for which we have never sown seeds. If we want people to show love and concern for us, we must sow seeds by showing love and concern for them.

As a teenager, your family members may not seem very important right now, but actually they are one of the greatest assets you have. If they are not, then they should be.

As I have mentioned, your parents may not be doing their part with you, but someone in your family has to start doing the right thing at some time, and it may as well be you.

Romans 12:18 tells us, If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Some people don't want to be peaceful, but God is asking us to at least try. The normal attitude is, “If you treat me bad, I will treat you the same way.

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