Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Ah Friends, I am ready to write, but I don’t know what to write. (smile) I’ve asked for help, but it hasn’t arrived as yet. So all I can do is wait and hope, but with the faith and assurance that help will be forthcoming before it’s too late. Yuh know, sometimes the Father drives me bonkers with His last minute style. I guess He’s trying to improve my patience level and see how strong my faith really is. Oh my faith is strong, else I wouldn’t be writing this Bit for almost four years now. My impatience meter though, that’s another story. It has improved over the years, but I doubt I’ll ever lose the urge, the desire to get stuff done within a reasonable time frame, rather than always be on the last minute train, rushing to complete a project or go somewhere, since that course is always fraught with mistakes and problems. Do you hear me chuckling Friends? That’s because our God is not only wonderful re blessings, mercy and forgiveness, but He also has a highly refined sense of humour. You’ll notice that though I didn’t know what to write at first, I ended up writing a lot. That was the help I sought, but given in a roundabout way. I had to make a start before He would intervene. I guess that was just one of His little ways of testing me, of gauging my level of surrender, to see if I’m a foolish son who’ll bring calamity upon his Father. He knows that I won’t knowingly cause Him problems, but we can’t say the same for many of our children in relation to us, human parents. And that’s especially true in this day of family, state and church breakdown, hence a time of untold freedom, lax morality and many other negative things like the current cult of celebrity, with no redeeming qualities or values whatsoever. Sol contends that ‘A foolish son is the calamity of his father.’ And that has much truth to it, for an unwise son could ruin a father’s life and home at any time, but even more so under the prevailing lax, loose conditions of our current society. Nowadays that proverb doesn’t only apply to sons but also to daughters, since many restrictions have been lifted from their once cloistered, convent-like existence. And I don’t care what the supposed experts say, one of the main reasons for this lax, lackadaisical society is the parents lax, lackadaisical attitude and approach to parenting. The Good Book makes it abundantly clear that if you spare the rod you’ll spoil the child. And we’re not talking about physical abuse, but children need to be made to understand right from the very beginning that disobedience will be punished. Now if God punishes His children for disobedience, why shouldn’t we do the same to ours? It’s our parental duty, and shirking it for whatever reason, doesn’t help, it only encourages them in the negative patterns. My children can’t tell you they were physically abused, and though they were basically good children, every so often they needed a slap or strap to keep them on the straight and narrow. And I know a lot of people consider a strap or slap physical abuse, but you don’t have to overdo it, and it does work in most cases. But that’s why we have children running around like ‘leggo’ beasts, with no manners, and no respect for any authority, especially their parents. Steups! The way I hear some children talking to their parents eh, mine wouldn’t dream of doing that with me, cause they know that big as they are, I wouldn’t be afraid to box the teeth out of their mouths. Ah mih people. Sol does have two other interesting statements I want to point out. ‘The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother shame.’ (Prov.29:15) ‘Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.’ (Prov.15:17) Now those are two bits of scripture that this generation of parents either didn’t know or for some reason ignored, hence the general lawlessness and sad behaviour of the upcoming generation. To some extent you can’t blame them because we didn’t teach them the right things or the right way. Sol also had something sensible to say on that point. ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ (Prov.22:6) Oh Friends, don’t tell we’ve trained up our children right, otherwise they wouldn’t be as selfish, immoral, rude and disrespectful as they are. And Friends I’m no prude or unwavering disciplinarian, in fact I’m quite liberal, but children must be taught from an early age that there are boundaries and limits a decent society or family will tolerate, and if they cross those boundaries or exceed the limits then they will pay a price in accordance with the severity of their disobedience. Oh Friends, I don’t know how many of you agree with me, but I’m sure you can’t be thrilled with the overall behaviour of young people today. And I’m not saying that every situation calls for a slap or strap, there are other ways to get the message across. All I’m saying is that we can’t completely rule out physical contact, at our own or society’s expense, cause that’s all many people understand. My mother punished me in other ways, but I always knew the strap was a real possibility, and sometimes it was preferable to other forms of punishment, because your skin soon cooled from the few lashes and you could get back to your normal routine, while some of the other forms were much more intrusive and emotionally painful. And that’s what I don’t like about some of the new fangled ways of punishment. I think they tend to leave more emotional scars on the children than the odd slap or strap. Oh Friends we’ve only covered one half of the Bit. Hn! From not knowing what to write, to writing so much, but those who know me, know that children’s generally negative behaviour today is one of my pet peeves. It annoys me no end. Anyway that’s my spiel for today. We’ll tackle the other part tomorrow, God willing. Till then Much LOVE!…a strong, god-fearing society must have… firm, reasonable borders and limits…but also requisite punishment for exceeding them…
Ah Friends, I am ready to write, but I don’t know what to write. (smile) I’ve asked for help, but it hasn’t arrived as yet. So all I can do is wait and hope, but with the faith and assurance that help will be forthcoming before it’s too late. Yuh know, sometimes the Father drives me bonkers with His last minute style. I guess He’s trying to improve my patience level and see how strong my faith really is. Oh my faith is strong, else I wouldn’t be writing this Bit for almost four years now. My impatience meter though, that’s another story. It has improved over the years, but I doubt I’ll ever lose the urge, the desire to get stuff done within a reasonable time frame, rather than always be on the last minute train, rushing to complete a project or go somewhere, since that course is always fraught with mistakes and problems. Do you hear me chuckling Friends? That’s because our God is not only wonderful re blessings, mercy and forgiveness, but He also has a highly refined sense of humour. You’ll notice that though I didn’t know what to write at first, I ended up writing a lot. That was the help I sought, but given in a roundabout way. I had to make a start before He would intervene. I guess that was just one of His little ways of testing me, of gauging my level of surrender, to see if I’m a foolish son who’ll bring calamity upon his Father. He knows that I won’t knowingly cause Him problems, but we can’t say the same for many of our children in relation to us, human parents. And that’s especially true in this day of family, state and church breakdown, hence a time of untold freedom, lax morality and many other negative things like the current cult of celebrity, with no redeeming qualities or values whatsoever. Sol contends that ‘A foolish son is the calamity of his father.’ And that has much truth to it, for an unwise son could ruin a father’s life and home at any time, but even more so under the prevailing lax, loose conditions of our current society. Nowadays that proverb doesn’t only apply to sons but also to daughters, since many restrictions have been lifted from their once cloistered, convent-like existence. And I don’t care what the supposed experts say, one of the main reasons for this lax, lackadaisical society is the parents lax, lackadaisical attitude and approach to parenting. The Good Book makes it abundantly clear that if you spare the rod you’ll spoil the child. And we’re not talking about physical abuse, but children need to be made to understand right from the very beginning that disobedience will be punished. Now if God punishes His children for disobedience, why shouldn’t we do the same to ours? It’s our parental duty, and shirking it for whatever reason, doesn’t help, it only encourages them in the negative patterns. My children can’t tell you they were physically abused, and though they were basically good children, every so often they needed a slap or strap to keep them on the straight and narrow. And I know a lot of people consider a strap or slap physical abuse, but you don’t have to overdo it, and it does work in most cases. But that’s why we have children running around like ‘leggo’ beasts, with no manners, and no respect for any authority, especially their parents. Steups! The way I hear some children talking to their parents eh, mine wouldn’t dream of doing that with me, cause they know that big as they are, I wouldn’t be afraid to box the teeth out of their mouths. Ah mih people. Sol does have two other interesting statements I want to point out. ‘The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother shame.’ (Prov.29:15) ‘Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.’ (Prov.15:17) Now those are two bits of scripture that this generation of parents either didn’t know or for some reason ignored, hence the general lawlessness and sad behaviour of the upcoming generation. To some extent you can’t blame them because we didn’t teach them the right things or the right way. Sol also had something sensible to say on that point. ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ (Prov.22:6) Oh Friends, don’t tell we’ve trained up our children right, otherwise they wouldn’t be as selfish, immoral, rude and disrespectful as they are. And Friends I’m no prude or unwavering disciplinarian, in fact I’m quite liberal, but children must be taught from an early age that there are boundaries and limits a decent society or family will tolerate, and if they cross those boundaries or exceed the limits then they will pay a price in accordance with the severity of their disobedience. Oh Friends, I don’t know how many of you agree with me, but I’m sure you can’t be thrilled with the overall behaviour of young people today. And I’m not saying that every situation calls for a slap or strap, there are other ways to get the message across. All I’m saying is that we can’t completely rule out physical contact, at our own or society’s expense, cause that’s all many people understand. My mother punished me in other ways, but I always knew the strap was a real possibility, and sometimes it was preferable to other forms of punishment, because your skin soon cooled from the few lashes and you could get back to your normal routine, while some of the other forms were much more intrusive and emotionally painful. And that’s what I don’t like about some of the new fangled ways of punishment. I think they tend to leave more emotional scars on the children than the odd slap or strap. Oh Friends we’ve only covered one half of the Bit. Hn! From not knowing what to write, to writing so much, but those who know me, know that children’s generally negative behaviour today is one of my pet peeves. It annoys me no end. Anyway that’s my spiel for today. We’ll tackle the other part tomorrow, God willing. Till then Much LOVE!…a strong, god-fearing society must have… firm, reasonable borders and limits…but also requisite punishment for exceeding them…
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