Posted on 01/22/2021 12:38:39 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
We have a generation of folks today that are completely trained to believe that sparing that rod is the only way to go; that the worst thing you could ever do to your kid is to smite them in the hindquarters with a rod, and folks, it's just not true. It is true that sometimes the rod in the Bible can be the tongue of the Lord or whatever; but that's not what this rod is. The Bible teaches a loving moderate application of corporal discipline. It's not to be done in anger or in hatred or any such thing; but it does say there that “he that spareth his rod hateth his son.” It is a very serious thing.
Along this line, this shows us what human nature is like. Believe it or not, your little crumb crunchers are human, and they were born with a wicked nature. Their nature is just as sinful as yours is. They look at you out of those little doe eyes and blink, and they're just the cutest little things in the world, yet they have a corrupt nature and they will use you and train you if you won't train them.
Notice further in Proverbs 22:15, which says: “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15).
You can overuse this verse and imagine it as being this harsh, horrible beating of a child. That is certainly the way that it is portrayed in some places, and I'm sorry but it's just not that way. “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child,” I don't know that a child needs a spanking every day, necessarily, but children are foolish. That kid will get himself or herself in trouble if he is not trained to stay away from certain things or forced to do certain things. If your kid will not eat lima beans without the rod, then he'll never eat lima beans if you don't make him eat Lima beans, right? It is best to train them the hard way not touch the hot stove; but would you rather have them have a bruise on their rear end, or a big ugly blister up and down their arm right?
Okay, “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child;” but it says there that “the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” That's one of the few places in the Bible that driving something is a good thing. Paul talked about being “driven about with every wind of doctrine,” and in the Old Testament those guys could look up in the heavens and be driven to worship them, how the devil drove the maniac of Gadara out into the wilderness. Okay, this one of the few places where it is good to drive somebody is to drive the foolishness out of the heart of a child.
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