July 17
"Chasten your son while there is hope,
and
let not your soul spare for his crying."
Proverbs
19:18
The world says that physical discipline is child abuse,
the media showing pictures of children bruised with cigarette burns
and broken bones. They hold these cases up to support their view that
you must not physically discipline your child. And the world buys
that.
The Word of God is NOT advocating child abuse. Just as
guns don't kill people, people kill people, so it is with child abuse
- the fact that there are child abusers does not mean that physical
discipline is abuse.
The point here is whether parents will
receive God's prescribed way of training up a child, or whether they
will reject God's Word and agree with the world.
"FOOLISHNESS
is bound up in the heart of a child;
the
rod of correction will drive it far from him."
Proverbs
22:15
Look at the fruits of a generation of children brought
up under the world's philosophies. We now live in a world where
anything goes. Even teachers in public schools have lost the "right"
to demand respect from the children. The children shout out
obscenities with impunity. We've created a generation of self-willed, insolent children who live by the motto, "I'll
do it my way and you can't stop me." And they're right.
"He
who spares his rod hates his son,
but
he who loves him disciplines him promptly."
Proverbs
13:24
To raise a child rejecting God's way of training him is
to hate the child, says the Scripture, because the parent is denying
him the training needed to teach him there are consequences to
disobedience, self-will, rebellion, and lawlessness.
DARE to
live by the Word of God who alone is wise, and not by the world which
soundly rejects his Word - look at the fruits of that.
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