1. You can pull your Father’s beard and he will cry.
2. Your Daddy will sometimes be too interested in the big game to listen to you.
3. Daddy is often interested in his own glory. Sadly, he’s very imperfect and so it’s evil that he wants that.
4. Your Daddy doesn’t always know what you’re thinking and feeling.
5. Your Daddy is balding, has a bad back, two bad shoulders, one bad attitude, all kinds of allergies. He’s frequently tired, stressed, and often thinks he isn’t up to the task.

Like almost everything, we can make some horrific inferences about God based on how dumb we are. Can you think of more?

1. Ignorance ought to yield to greater knowledge (especially omniscience).
2. Loving parents must do things their kids can’t possibly understand, even painful things (like discipline).
3. Loving discipline of true children (adopted or natural) should be corrective, restorative.
4. There’s no ache like a loving parent’s ache (in love and pain).
5. 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).