Discipline Your Children
It is a great privilege to be able to have children. It is a huge responsibility to raise them correctly. Since I was a child in the 1960's there has been an ongoing debate about whether it is good to discipline our children or not. Some people are against spanking. Others use it as a part of discipline. Others just us "time out" and other techniques to try to teach their children what to do and what not to do. No matter where you fall in that spectrum, we all need to hear what Solomon had to tell us from the Lord. (Proverbs 29:17) Let's consider it, and ask God what we should do for our children and grandchildren.
The truth is that if we do discipline our children they will give us rest and be a delight to our hearts. If we do not discipline them, the very opposite will be true. Think about the last time you were around an undisciplined child for any length of time. How much rest did you get? I know my experience is that undisciplined children are very loud, disrespectful, and destructive. All of these things and other characteristics cause the parents not to get rest. In fact, they have to go through a lot of stress because of their children's behavior. The children are not a delight to their hearts, because they are always afraid of what they will do or say around other people. Usually, they end up hearing about their bad words and actions from other people, which brings shame and not delight. Therefore, we need to make it a priority to discipline our children and grandchildren, so that they hear and understand the right way to act and talk. That will be a blessing for them and for us.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Proverbs 30-31 and Ecclesiastes 1.
The truth is that if we do discipline our children they will give us rest and be a delight to our hearts. If we do not discipline them, the very opposite will be true. Think about the last time you were around an undisciplined child for any length of time. How much rest did you get? I know my experience is that undisciplined children are very loud, disrespectful, and destructive. All of these things and other characteristics cause the parents not to get rest. In fact, they have to go through a lot of stress because of their children's behavior. The children are not a delight to their hearts, because they are always afraid of what they will do or say around other people. Usually, they end up hearing about their bad words and actions from other people, which brings shame and not delight. Therefore, we need to make it a priority to discipline our children and grandchildren, so that they hear and understand the right way to act and talk. That will be a blessing for them and for us.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Proverbs 30-31 and Ecclesiastes 1.