Scripture of the Day
Revelation 3:19 (NKJV)
“For Your Own Good”
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
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This verse reminds me of the phrase, “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you!” It seemed really strange when my parents would say this while they were holding the belt or switch (There were no “Time-Outs” for us). How was it going to hurt them more when I was the one on the other end of the belt! Or when they put me on restriction, they would say something like, “We are doing this because we love you! It’s for your own good” Again, I was thinking, “You have a strange way of showing your love!” I was confined to my room for a week, and I was suppose to believe it is love, and for my own good that I am being rebuked and/or chasten!
It didn’t make sense until I was a parent myself! If I didn’t love my children, I would not care what they were doing! Sometimes as parents, we don’t rebuke or chasten our children for the fear of they will not love us back! Because the old phrases of “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you!” or “We are doing this because we love you!” didn’t make sense to us then, we don’t want to do the same thing to our children now. Most people that I talk to about this will always tell me how grateful they are that their parents were consistent! They didn’t fully understand it then, but now they appreciate how their parents held them accountable! I have also heard grown people blame who they are on the fact that their parents didn’t rebuke bad behavior! Because there was no accountability . . . there were no boundaries.
How much more does our FATHER in heaven love us? Therefore HE is consistent in HIS rebuke and chasten with us! We may not understand why, but we can be sure that it breaks the FATHER’s heart when we decide to sin against HIM. We can also be sure that HE disciplines us, because HE loves us . . . even when we don’t love HIM back for it. We must know that HIS consistency will make us better! In fact, it is for our own good that HE corrects us (In a loving way).
Love Sincerely
1 comment:
To piggyback on your message, one thing that I hear some parents say is that they don't want to discipline their children the way their parents did... and that is why there are so many disrespectful and lost youth. The parents are not consistent and they ignore the situation. I believe that it's doesn't hurt to incorporate those "old ways and values" to bring up a child--at least we had consistent and loving parents.
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