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Proverb 29:15, “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
The great need in America today is homemaking mothers once again. Every husband and children should enjoy regular home-cooked meals. Every child should be taught the Word of God by mama. Every family should have a mother to guide the home as 1st Timothy 5:14-15 teaches. Today it's microwaves, TV's and bratty children. A child left to himself or herself bringeth a mother to shame. If a child lacks nourishing meals, it's the mother's fault for not caring. If a child goes to school wearing dirty clothes, or not wearing a coat in cold weather, it's the mother's fault for not caring. If a child with a bladder problem is going to bed night-after-night in urine-soaked sheets, it's the mother's fault for not caring. If a man goes to work and is eating out of a vending machine, it's because his wife doesn't care enough to make him a lunch. Many women don't care these days. Doctors will send her to a psychologist, and the psychologist will send her to a psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist will send her to a neurologist, and then she'll be diagnosed with a chemical imbalance of the brain, or clinical depression, and SHE WILL BE PRESCRIBED DRUGS!!! It's an evil money-making racket in America. That's the best this rotten, wicked and insane world can do to help a struggling mother. The truth is that she needs wisdom and character, which she woefully lacks. The world cannot give a woman what she needs to become a prudent wife, a virtuous woman and a caring mother. These things come only from God. That's exactly what the Bible teaches in Proverb 19:14, “a prudent wife is from the LORD.” A prudent wife comes from THE LORD!!! It is God who makes a woman what she ought to be, and you'll never become a prudent or virtuous woman without the Lord's help. Have you spent time seeking after God today? When a woman's house is filthy, and her children are hungry, and her husband is frustrated because she won't spend 5-minutes in front of a mirror, it's only because she is not walking with God and doesn't care like God cares. If you truly walk with God, then you will care. You will do what it takes to make it, to tough it out, and to look well to the ways of your household. It is unavoidable. You show me someone who doesn't care and I know they don't genuinely walk with God. God cares (1st Peter 5:7). A shameful mother rears shameful children. Behind every spoiled adult is a spoiled childhood. The fastest way to ruin a child is to give them everything they want. Children should be made to carry burdens—do their homework, work around the house, wash their own clothes, do the dishes, shovel snow, rake leaves, and cook their own meals frequently. It's a shame that many adults don't know how to thread a needle, wash their own clothes or cook a recipe. Mamas, teach your children to be self-sufficient in life, otherwise they'll have difficulties adjusting as an adult. If you walk with God, then He'll rub-off on you and you'll start to care too. Abide in the Scriptures, pray, depart from wickedness, and seek God's face in your life. The question is... Do you want to be a prudent wife? It happens step-by-step, book-by-book, day-by-day, burden-by-burden, sermon-by-sermon, recipe-by-recipe, mistake-by-mistake, and so forth. Nothing worthwhile in life ever comes easy. There's always a price to pay for success. |
The Bible doesn't say that an undisciplined child
brings shame to the father. No, rather, the Bible says in Proverb
29:15 that a child left undisciplined brings shame upon THE MOTHER!
