Waiting for life to make sense, and for a heart full of hurts to heal, ended up planting a garden of strength in my soul. Because I now know... that when nothing makes sense, God sees the outcome.  

Thankfully, God gives parents some comforting promises in raising children, such as Proverbs 22:6, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”He also gives us instructions on keeping parents and kids on track, as Deuteronomy 11:18-19 encourages. “Fix these words of Mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”Still, parents aren’t perfect, and even with our best intentions in our parenting decisions, we may sometimes make what seem like poor choices in raising our children. When we do, it’s easy for us to beat ourselves up and even feel like we’ve ruined their lives.Sometimes, what we think are good decisions at the moment can have us second-guessing for a lifetime, especially when choices and decisions that seem right at the time lead to unexpected results in our children’s lives and in our lives, too.Parenting Mistakes of Biblical ProportionLooking at moms and dads in the Bible, we see how some sometimes made very questionable parenting choices. Such choices radically impacted and redirected their children’s futures.Although we see how God worked it all together for good in their lives, leading to fulfilling His purposes and plans in each child’s life (Romans 8:28), the seemingly wrong choices their parents made could seem like catastrophic parenting blunders.The following are four biblical parents who seemingly made colossal mistakes raising their children.Photo Credit: Jonathan Sanchez/Unsplash

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