Love Or Neglect?
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Daily Reading – Pro. 12-13 / 1 Cor. 16
GOD’S WORD:
Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
GETTING INTO GOD’S WORD:
In my personal library is a book written by H. A. Ironside in 1907 called “Notes On Proverbs.” In my copy, published in Feb. 1946, on page 154 Dr. Ironside makes this statement when writing about Prov. 13:24; Quote; “It is not love, but the lack of it, that leaves a child to himself; to develop unchecked, tendencies and propensities which shall result in future sorrow. Ours is a day of great laxity on this point. The coming generation will reap the bitter fruit of the absence of restraint and the evident aversion to chastening, so manifest in the majority of homes.” End quote. This statement was made over one hundred years ago. I ask you to consider, was he right?
When people think they have a better way than God’s way, they are in essence saying God is wrong. Today we have a nation full of “me first” adults who have gotten their way for so long they believe this is how it should be. No one wants to tell anyone they might be wrong. If you do, they pout like a two-year old who never learned to handle reproof.
God’s ways have always been correct. Any correction handed out by God is done in love for the benefit of the one He is correcting. That is the part missing from most corrections today. It is not done out of love, but rather to punish them for interrupting the adult’s life. Correction must be done with love for the child, trying to help them.
GETTING GOD’S WORD INTO ME:
There is a huge difference between correction and child abuse. We ought never allow or be part of child abuse. However, often by NOT making children mind, we are abusing them even more. True love will manifest itself in many ways.
Is letting a child run wild love or neglect?
“Getting people into the Word of God…
… and the Word of God into people.”
Romans 10:17
Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12
Author: admin
Author of LIHW Daily Devotions, and President of Living In His Word Ministries.
