To Spank or Not to Spank

Proverbs 23:13-14
The Message

Don't be afraid to correct your young ones;
a spanking won't kill them.
A good spanking, in fact, might save them
from something worse than death.


Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
Sin is foolishness, it is in the heart, there is an inward tendency to sin: children bring it into the world with them; and it cleaves close to the soul. (Colossians 2:13-14 says, “You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.) We all need to be corrected by our heavenly Father. As do our children by us.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
We as parents must consider the benefit of due correction, and the mischief of undue indulgence. In other words, learning from inappropriate behavior (or attitude) and not committing act again versus a troublesome child(person) who overtaken by poor behavior or attitude just because he/she can.
This not only applies to our children, but to us and our relationship with God. Our need for correction, is dyer to us receiving this privilege of Eternity with Christ.