Jill contrasts ordinary motherhood with Christian motherhood, warning that parents can fall into traps—especially idolizing or obsessing over their children.
If the enemy can't separate you from God, he's content to do the next best thing… distract you with subtle traps that will draw you away from God. These traps may seem like normal things in life that you manage every day—time, money, self.
Have you planned your funeral? Few of us have. We like to think of death as something far off in the future. Then once we do acknowledge death, sometimes we fall into “you only live once” thinking and fill our time with whatever pleases us.
We’ve all been on both sides of hurtful words. We’ve insulted and been insulted, gossiped and been gossiped about. We’ve spoken words that have been obscene, profane, idle, or unkind.
We live in a culture that encourages greed. We feel the need to “keep up with the Joneses” and own things that we don’t necessarily want or need. We are lured in by the “greed cheese”...
When little troubles appear in our lives, we can be surprised and wonder why God would allow such things to happen to us. Such thinking reveals that we may have fallen into the “Me Trap.”
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