We can't control the way our family responds to us. When it comes to the behavior of others toward us, our hands are tied. We have to move beyond the naive expectation that if we do good, people will treat us right. The fact is, they may, or they may not.
If your father is a jerk, you could be the world's best daughter, and he still wouldn't tell you so.
If your aunt doesn't like your career, you could change jobs a dozen times and still never satisfy her.
If your sister is always complaining about what you got and she didn't, you could give her everything, and she still might not change.
As long as you think you can control people's behavior toward you, you are held in bondage by their opinions. If you think you can control their opinion and their opinion isn't positive, than guess whom you have to blame. Yourself.
It's a game with unfair rules and fatal finishes.
I can't assure you that your family will ever give you the blessing you seek, but I know God will. Let God give you what your family doesn't. If your earthly father doesn't affirm you, then let your heavenly Father take his place.
How do you do that? By emotionally accepting God as your Father. You see, it's one thing to accept him as Lord, another to recognize him as Savior, but it's another matter entirely to accept him as Father.
God has proven himself as a faithful Father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children. Let God give you what your family doesn't. Let him fill the void others have left. Rely on him for your affirmation and encouragement. Look at Paul's words: "You are God's child, and God will give you the blessing he promised, because you are his child" (Gal 4:7, emphasis mine).
By: Max Lucado
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