4 Aug., 2020 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some, the virus has served to compel improvements in parenting.\u00a0 Careers cans serve as an escape from the duty to “parent,” to “rear,” – indeed to “disciple” one’s children.\u00a0 Parenting is a labor that some, to their discredit, are happy to circumvent or attenuate.\u00a0 Careers sometimes provide a relief from that laborious task.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it is a duty, nevertheless, ordained by God and one which serves not only\nthe children who are being trained, but the trainers, who, as sinners, are\nthemselves ever undergoing their own personal sanctification. “Iron sharpens iron” as the saying\ngoes. And some iron from one’s own loins\nis about as warm and friendly as it gets – or should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many-a parent, I do believe, finds a way to circumvent this\nexperience in pursuit of career and money (played off as a necessity for\nnecessary income). But no income,\nreally, is worth the discipline and the instruction given by a parent who is\n“sharing time” with his child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Truly, it is an opportunity to share time together, to\ninter-act with one another, to have fellowship even in the midst of a didactic\nsetting. Yes, the parent is to instruct\nin and model right living, But he also\nexperiences growth in his own spiritual maturation. From the time a mother learns the pain of carrying\na child inside her body and expelling\nhim into the world until the time he goes off to marriage or travel or career\nthat mother has her life in the endless company of her offspring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But she learns, indeed, that it is not all about her. Life is about giving the same to others:\nproducing others and serving them. \nThis path is the way of God, who made us, refused to destroy us when we\nbetrayed him, became one of us, died for all the human race, and continues to\nprovide for His rebels throughout the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And those rebels continue to wander in their rebellion from\ngeneration to generation and nation to nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the virus is one of those tools the Almighty’s uses just\nas He has in past times: plagues and wars and droughts and storms and famines\nof the past. He says, “Wake\nup! Give me the honor and the worship\nthat is due. Death awaits all and then\njudgment. Wake up, do your duty. Repent and be at peace.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So gain some benefits from the Corona Virus spanking. Grow up and live with the knowledge that the\nultimate goal in life is to bring glory\nto Him<\/em>, especially through that Community of Saints, the Church: evangelism\nand service. In all that you do, avoid\nsin, serve the brethren, and serve others outside the Community of Saints with\nthe high goal of bringing honor to Him and some into the fold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4 Aug., 2020 For some, the virus has served to compel improvements in parenting.\u00a0 Careers cans serve as an escape from the duty to “parent,” to “rear,” – indeed to “disciple” one’s children.\u00a0 Parenting is a labor that some, to their discredit, are happy to circumvent or attenuate.\u00a0 Careers sometimes provide a relief from that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,51,30,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}