Having been a stepfather to a teenage girl and being there even though she is grown, there are a few things I know. Raising teenage girls will make you really consider murdering someone and being a stepdad is hard.
The constant knowing your not really dad. The dreaded words that will come, "you are not my real dad". Walking that thin line of balance. Always afraid you will do to much or too little.
Here are my thoughts for all you step parents out there. Specifically stepdads. There is a crisis in our families in the world today. Too many absentee fathers and mothers. Stepparents are sometimes the only answer and they can be God's gift to the child.
I truly believe Jesus has special heart for the stepdads out there. He himself had one. If you're a stepparent and you think you have it rough, how would you like to have had Jesus as a stepson. Gotta be a lot of pressure. But through out the threats and stress of it all what little we know of Joseph shows he had a communication with God and he led his family based on that. My advice is as stepparents we do the same.
Proverbs 22:6 says "Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it."
It does not say if you are the real dad or mom. It says to train the child. Don't ever doubt the importance of the opportunity stepparents have to be godly examples.
- MZG
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