Children never have to learn to do all the wrong things.  It is their natural behavior.  They bite, spit, kick, throw tantrums, cheat, lie, sass their parents, etc., etc.,….  (Yes, I know, your kids didn't.)

You spend an awful lot of our parenting energy teaching them to do right.  To be fair.  To be kind.  To share, etc., etc.,...  Those are not their natural inclinations.  We want them to be responsible members of society, but it is an uphill battle.  We are born selfish, self-centered--you name it.  We have to learn to be good, to do good.

The Bible says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."  When my children were young, I took comfort in the word "old".  Maybe there was hope!!!

And even then, we never make it.  If you are like me, there are some things that I wish I could undo.  But they are done.  Our only hope is that because Christ died for our sin, that God will forgive us and blame Him.  Sacrifice Him.  Put our sin on the cross.  Put the nails in his hands for us.

Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his brother.  Ken has said that although you join the Marine Corps to serve your country, you don't think about your country when you are in a fire fight.  You think about the men who go in to fight with you.  Your Marine brothers.  They are the ones you are willing to die for.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."  John 15: 13.

That's what Jesus did for us.