Is it easy to handle a growing up kid? Is there a best formula in rearing children? Was there ever a best seller book that talks about the proper way to discipline children?
My children are both grown ups now, and I don’t know if I really did good in raising them up.
One time while strolling in the mall, I happened to pass by a Christian bookstore that sells a “discipline rod.” Engraved on the rod was a quote from Proverb 13:24 of King Solomon, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” That wise saying in the Bible seems easy to apply in our real lives but tell you, it is not so.
I recall the times when my daughter was only about 6-7 years of age. Every time she disobeys our set rules, she gets a corresponding punishment. I have a rod to discipline her. But each time I have to use it to her, it pains me as well. It breaks my heart to see her cry.
So one time I told her that each time she disobeys and I have to scold her with the rod, I will get the spanking instead. When I told her this she cried out loud and embraced me. She said, “Sorry, Dad. It wont happen again.”
Do you think she learned her lesson? As for me, I learned something from this. I remember 2000 years ago somebody did something like this for me. He took all the pain the rod spared. He died for my sins at the cross. Jesus Christ died so that I may live.
John 3:17- God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Bible Reading: John 3:1-21
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. 10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Meaning: Jesus came down on earth not to punish but to save me from my sins.
Application: Believing is simply knowing Jesus Christ by heart through reading His life stories as written in the four Gospels of the Bible and realizing what He has done for me to further increase my faith in Him and make me someday join Him in heaven.
My children are both grown ups now, and I don’t know if I really did good in raising them up.
One time while strolling in the mall, I happened to pass by a Christian bookstore that sells a “discipline rod.” Engraved on the rod was a quote from Proverb 13:24 of King Solomon, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” That wise saying in the Bible seems easy to apply in our real lives but tell you, it is not so.
I recall the times when my daughter was only about 6-7 years of age. Every time she disobeys our set rules, she gets a corresponding punishment. I have a rod to discipline her. But each time I have to use it to her, it pains me as well. It breaks my heart to see her cry.
So one time I told her that each time she disobeys and I have to scold her with the rod, I will get the spanking instead. When I told her this she cried out loud and embraced me. She said, “Sorry, Dad. It wont happen again.”
Do you think she learned her lesson? As for me, I learned something from this. I remember 2000 years ago somebody did something like this for me. He took all the pain the rod spared. He died for my sins at the cross. Jesus Christ died so that I may live.
John 3:17- God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Bible Reading: John 3:1-21
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. 10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Meaning: Jesus came down on earth not to punish but to save me from my sins.
Application: Believing is simply knowing Jesus Christ by heart through reading His life stories as written in the four Gospels of the Bible and realizing what He has done for me to further increase my faith in Him and make me someday join Him in heaven.
Character of Jesus: Jesus is so brave to take the beatings and the nailing on the cross that led to his death for our sins.
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