Parents, never drive your children to resentment
but bring them up with correction and advice inspired by the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
Our image of God in heavily influenced by the way our fathers and mothers treated us. When they have loved us and cherished us, we are comfortable with God who loves us and cherishes us. We feel sure of God, we know that we can trust God with our life.
If one or the other or both punished us severely we grow up afraid of God as someone who cannot be trusted. We also may are very judgmental of others. Some may even turn away from God entirely.
A book I just finished reading named Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God, can help us to understand how we come to our image of God and to find ways to heal it.
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