"Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not
discouraged." Colossians 3:21
There is more instruction in the New Testament for parents
than for children. This may be because the occupation of being a parent is harder
than any other. It requires a God-given sensitivity. Authority must be used
with restraint, because its excessive use may stiffen resistance. This verse
warns us that insensitive parents can easily provoke their children to the point
of discouragement.
In every way you are stronger than your child. You may
subdue him by an overbearing will or simply by your physical strength. If you
goad him to such an extent, then he will just wait for the day of liberation.
When that day comes, he will throw off all restraint and claim freedom in everything.
Ask yourselves, therefore, what kind of home it was that led the needy son to
resolve, "I will arise and go to my father."
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