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Role
Reversals
•As we parents age, our children normally take a larger and larger place in our lives.
–At some point they may want to take us into THEIR homes
or provide care for US.
–The normal direction of provision is from the parent
down.
•2 Corinthians 12:14 Now I am ready to
visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not
your possessions
but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their
children.
•Parents usually provide for their
children until they leave the home or, in America, until they complete high
school or college.
–However, 1 Timothy 5:4 4 But if a widow has children or
grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their
religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying
their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.