Proverbs 19:25
Smite a
scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding,
and he will understand knowledge.
Our
children can be scorners sometimes and we must be willing to smite them. .
There has to be consequences for scorning and it will help our other
children know that scorning is inappropriate and will not be tolerated. Scorning is to scoff or make fun of. Our children must not mock serious things and
if they do, they must experience some sort of reprimand in order to know that
it is wrong and to cause others around to know that it is not His way for us.
As we
correct our children when they are off, they will have understanding and they
will actually understand knowledge rather than just repeat it. Reproving someone involves a determined
explanation of what was wrong and how it might be brought to the level that the
Lord would want for their lives. Reproof
is to be done with great mercy and tenderness and yet firm on the standard for
which the correction is given. We, as
mothers, must be open to the Lord’s reproof and how He does this to us, that we
might follow His example in this way.
Then we will understand knowledge and be able to instruct our children
in the way they should go because we have been instructed ourselves.
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