6 (His father had never rebuked him by asking, “Why do you behave as you do?” He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)
I agree with you let's knock out the Old Testament! So we have Kings and Chronicles left I believe. Here we go through Kings--
It was a good story of a power struggle to read through but I did not get any real clear messages to gleam from it. Maybe all families have problems even the mighty King David?
I did note this one verse that points out that maybe David wasn't the best at disciplining his children. By not doing it his child goes on to do destructive actions to others and himself. Simple message tucked into a large chapter.
Its really probably too late in our house now, most of our teaching in terms of discipline has already occurred. I was just talking about this with a friend a couple nights ago about the challenges we see with another friend of ours who's kids are having some challenges because boundaries weren't established when they were younger.
I am thankful that Gina and I were aligned and consistent in discipline with our kids almost all of the time. I do think we benefit from it now. I'm sure our kids will make some bad choices, I know I do. But hopefully they will charter a generally good course because we did 'rebuke' them at times.
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I agree. Here's another chapter showing blatant human greed. There was no consult with God here. He just tried to take over. The discipline thing is tough, and I completely agree with you. Kim and I were consistent too.....at least I think. But, Max is still giving us a run for our money. I still think the right seeds have been planted, and he is ultimately on the right path, but his friends are pulling him away from that path.
ReplyDeletekeep rockin....we're almost there.