Blog 10-31-2011

Monday

PRaP 10-31-2011

Today is c2C Ministry 7th year anniversary!  Praise God for His favor and Grace!

 

Observation

 

I was at a park with a friend yesterday and we were watching the children play.  There were 3 brothers playing football and I saw the youngest fall on the sidewalk and scrape his knees and elbow.  The oldest brother came of to see if the younger was ok and the middle brother was angry at the older brother for knocking the younger down.  As they got up the middle brother was trying to get the older brother to take the hurt brother to mom who was around the corner and blurted out an obscenity to the young one.  We were floored to say the least to hear such language coming from such a small mouth.  Later on the parents came along the mom first and then the dad some time later and as they play I suddenly heard this burst of yelling but this time from an adult mouth.  Seem s the older son had said something the dad didn’t like and the dad was loud and almost boastful in the approach to this child and then while he was verbally lambasting the older the middle son began to get angry and had a glass bottle he accidentally dropped.  Thankfully the bottle didn’t break but immediately the dad jumped over to the other child and began hammering him about the bottle and was telling him to go through it in the trash can but his mom told him already it was ok to save it for something else he had wanted to do with it but the dad became more indignant with the child and I heard the child tell his dad that he hated him because of how he treats them.  After witnessing this whole fiasco I understood where the older child had learned his obscenities.  What’s the moral of my story today?  I saw how seeds of anger are sewn and how once that seed is sown how it spreads to the children.  Parents when you discipline your children do it in a way that doesn’t destroy them especially in the public arena.  Life is too short to be so indignant towards your children.  If you tear down a child for something they have done be sure you build them back up quickly or the anger will stay and will be handed down from generation to generation.  Now if you just said that you were disciplined the way your father disciplined them you need to break that chain of abuse.  I bet this family’s day had started at a local church.  We discipline in love not in anger.  Oh and if you just said spare the rod spoil the child.  It isn’t in the Bible look it up and read it again it is Proverbs 13:24

 

Colossians 3:19-21

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

 ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

 ²¹ Fathers,^[a] do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

 

Peace and Agape Love,

Pastor Steve

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