Discipline is nothing to cry over.

We all want to be blessed don't we? Perhaps one of God's greatest blessings is to discipline us. When we confess our sin and begin to live for Christ, we are then back on the path to growth again.

I used to hear ladies lamenting that they had to discipline their children. I never thought of it as a bad thing. Babies cry when they come out of the womb, the doctor slaps their bottom to get them to breathe, and no one thinks anything bad is happening.

When we have jobs to do that produce something good, we should never feel bad about doing them. During the day we do the dishes, wash the cloths, spank the children and mop the floor. I never saw my jobs as bad, because they produced a cleaner kitchen, cloths and floor. Spanking produced a friendlier more obedient child. Just a part of the job of raising children.

Proverbs 22:6 "6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

When we say "no pain no gain" concerning exercising our bodies, we can think that way about raising children or any other duty in our household. The surgeon has to cut on a person to heal them and God has to prune us as one prunes a rose bush, to make us healthier, producing more and better blooms.

When we can stop basing our actions on our emotions, then our emotions will change too, it is barely possible that many mothers wouldn't feel emotional about discipline if they were not listening to the culture they live in. The culture makes them think they should feel bad.

When we go with God, in our decisions of life, we can rise above the culture and do what is right, because remember the culture is not following God, for the most part the culture is following psychology concocted by the heathens and we can see where that has led us, deeper and deeper into 2 Timothy 3.

2 Timothy 3:1-9

"3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will PROGRESS no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."

If we can see the tasks we have to do as producing better fruit and greater human beings, then we can do them with confidence and even hope in our hearts.