Raising Wise Children

19 our sins and make an everlasting future for us. So many people do not fear their carnal departures. They don’t tremble. 6 Piper, when talking about “their carnal departures,” literally means, their fleshly departures. He is speaking about how we should view all of our sinfulness in the light of a truly Holy God! We come so far short of our Father’s standard for His children. What is our only hope? It is surely that Christ Jesus, the only really wise one, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, came to redeem us and forgive us by taking our sin, all our fleshly departures upon himself and dying on the cross that it might be so! And we tremble in awe that this might be so! So we run, not from Him, but to Him again and again in the light of our fallenness and in the light of His grace! For me, fearing God is really about having this kind of a personal and right relationship with the Lord. With children, I