Five Helpful Theological Inferences from Parenting to be Considered
» S.D. Smith
- Ignorance ought to yield to greater knowledge (especially omniscience).
- Loving parents must do things their kids can’t possibly understand, even painful things (like discipline).
- Loving discipline of true children (adopted or natural) should be corrective, restorative.
- There’s no ache like a loving parent’s ache (in love and pain).
- It’s a challenge to communicate with children who refuse to see anything but their own, selfish perspective.
Parenting is so helpful for understanding God’s perspective a little better. Can you add some more helpful inferences?
Note: This is not a picture of discipline, but of sheer goofiness (though I was pretending to throw them in a fountain).
September 14th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Parenting experience enables us to appreciate the longsuffering of our heavenly Father. He has “the long view” in mind. Perhaps we can, armed with this understanding, take the “long view” (not a reckognized theolological term probably) when doing NOW what will be best for our child in his future. One thing is certain, all of us are learning as we go.