Ginger Hubbard

that the people would have to take their focus off of the circumstances and situations going on around them and onto

the sin in their own heart.

And so the first step is heart probing questions.

The second step is what to put off.

That is, what does God's word say about that particular behavior and what it can lead to if it continues?

And then step three is what to put on, how to replace what is wrong with what is right in accordance with God's word, because that is where truth and wisdom is in God's word.

So

So let's say, you know, the situation is hitting, sibling hitting another sibling.

Can you do those three things in that scenario?

I can, but I can't do it off the top of my head.

I have created this little wise words for moms chart because it's hard to remember all of these different things and to go to scripture.

So what I did when my kids were little, and we'll get to the hitting, but I wrote down all the things that they struggled with.

And it was usually just two or three things at one time.

They're not going to struggle with all things, you know, at the same time.

And so it started with like two or three behaviors.

One was disobeying because whose kids doesn't struggle with disobeying.

And then I thought through heart probing questions for that and for tattling

And for not sharing their things like that.

And so I wrote down a couple of heart probing questions.

The heart probing questions helps to get to the heart of what is behind that outward behavior.