I've successfully raised seven children by following the guidelines given in the Bible which not only includes spanking but highly recommends it.
My children learned to "respect," (not fear), both my wife and I and other adults and their peers as well as respecting one another. They have been lauded as wonderful children by many people who have given us and them unsolicited praise in many different venues over the years from birth through adulthood!
I don't know what gives anyone the right to speak of discipline when they think they know more than God! He created us and knows exactly what we need including discipline. In fact, the Bible says of adults and children alike that God disciplines those He loves. To explain how He does that would take a book all by itself.
Children who are disciplined in the proper way, (with love), turn out all right. I have worked in ministry with children who complained that their parents didn't love them because they never stopped them from doing wrong. They specifically told me that they expected to be spanked and their parents failed them.
All our children love us and they have written and thanked us that we used the paddle on them and would not relent. Our oldest son even wrote a poem expressing his thankfulness including the needed spankings. Before the spanking we would let them know the reason for it (though they already knew) and after the spanking we would hold them and let them know we love them.
I see the results in our society of raising children without discipline, and most of these kids have no respect for themselves or anyone else. They call adults by their first name and don't hesitate to mock and deride those who they have problems with. Many of the children are involved in sex, drugs, alcohol, parties, worldly music that heavily promotes these things and teaches the hearer that women are to be regarded as "Ho's" (street terminology for women referring to them as whores) and on and on.
In 75 years of living on this planet this generation of children is the most brassy and rebellious and self-centered that I have ever seen. It all stems from lack of discipline that is enforced by articles like those written by the so-called experts in the field of discipline who come from unbiblical perspectives in the secular arena, and who are ignorant of God’s rules of discipline or deliberately defy them.
Thank God the majority of people in this country don't follow their misconceptions and bad advice or we would have wholesale acts of rebellion in every household in the nation. Our future government would consist of undisciplined and arrogant people far worse than the ones in office now. Our whole society would be irrational, crude and uncontrollable.
We must line up our advice with God's word, the Bible. We can't go wrong if we do. You may want to start with the words of Solomon (the wisest man who ever lived) - - Here is what he had to say.
Proverbs 22:15 – “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.” This is an issue of the heart, and the scriptures remind us that “from within, out of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Here foolishness is not only present, but it is solidly entrenched in the heart of children and must be dealt with.
Proverbs 23:13 and 14. - Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die, Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Hell.”
This is of extreme importance. The soul that is not corrected and directed toward a life of obedience to God is in danger of Hell and finally, damnation in a lake of fire. Read Revelation 20:11-15 KJV
If we love our children we will do what is necessary to secure their salvation. Discipline now or Damnation forever. The choice must be made in favor of discipline while they we are alive to make it and they are alive to take it. Eternity is ahead for all of us. Discipline will bring us home to our heavenly Father and rebellion will separate us from him forever. Our children's eternity hangs in the balance.
C R Lord © 4/17/2022
Revised 12/23/2024
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