Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy
son while there is hope,
and let not
thy soul spare for his crying.
To
discipline our children is to love them.
We must not listen to their responses and change the course of our
decisions because of their crying or complaining. There is hope for our children while we have
the opportunity to guide and order the standards by which they live up to. We must take full advantage of this and make
decisions based on prayerful consideration of what the Lord is leading us to do
to train them in the way that they should go.
We must not change course because of their whining or how difficult it
may be for us to keep them on this path.
God has put us in charge and all authority has been given by God. We will lead them in ways they will not
naturally choose and this is the way it is supposed to be. If they knew what they were to do, God would
not have given parental authority. Stand
strong, young mother and endure the crying of your child if you know you are
implementing good discipline to produce character. Stand strong, mother of that teen, and
remember your time of parental guidance is coming to a close, use this time to
lift up the standard in love and don’t grow weary of their reasoning and
resistance. Our soul must be guarded
from the responses of our children so that we don’t give up on what the Lord
has told us to do. Let us chasten our
children while there is hope and realize that they will thank us when they are
older.
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