The Sunday Message

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Happy Father’s Day and welcome.

Today we are back into the study of Proverbs, 19:1-29 – Most Likely Outcomes.

As before, we kind of break the selection of Proverbs by themes like finance, parenting, and other relationships.

I’ve summarized a few within each theme, within a outline.

Generosity is rewarded.

Character is more valuable than riches.

We all crave to be loved, adored and valued.

Laziness is abhorred by the Lord.

I. The Wealthy and “Underachievers” Should be Aware of Possible Downsides.

(1, 4, 6-7, 10, 14-15, 17, 22, 24)

Women wanting to influence men shouldn’t nag but should use fewer words and more body language.

Wives should -above all-pray for their husbands. As with discipline and children, parents should use body language, tone, and instruction. To not discipline is to contribute to their death.

Parental abuse brings shame and disgrace upon the child.

II. Children May Suffer Unnecessarily Due to Poor Choices. (13, 18, 26-27)

It is a fool who blames God for his poor choices.

Dont give people who mock or offend any real estate in your mind.

Don’t be an enabler, especially to children. Allow them to feel the pain of their bad choices, don’t ‘save’ them.

Have a healthy fear of the Lord, for it is the beginning of wisdom.

III. Rage and Lying Never Ends Well. (2-3, 9, 11, 12, 19-20, 28)

Proverbs are the guidelines to living our best life. Had everyone only followed them we might not be headed in the direction we are going.

Looks like we are already there, doesn’t it?

We need to pray, for our country, for our leaders, for Israel, and mostly, for the Lord to come before the worst of times arrives.

Dear Lord,

Thank you for our blessings, thank you for the guidelines you provided, and please let there be peace in the Middle East. This is my prayer, thank you for our fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. Lift up the sick and injured, the missionaries, and all the soldiers serving today. Please come soon Lord, amen.

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  1. rajkkhoja Avatar
    rajkkhoja

    The great massage you sharing. Iam inspiring. Thank you so much,you praying for all our fathers, husbands, brothers and sons.

    “Women wanting to influence men shouldn’t nag but should use fewer words and more body language.”

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    1. fgsjr2015 Avatar
      fgsjr2015

      In Childhood Disrupted the author writes that “[even] well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (pg.24).

      Being a caring, competent, loving and knowledgeable parent (about factual child-development science) should matter most when deciding to procreate. Therefore, parental failure seems to occur as soon as the solid decision is made to have a child even though the parent-in-waiting cannot be truly caring, competent, loving and knowledgeable.

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    fgsjr2015

    Parents, including fathers, really need to be emotionally sound/strong AND knowledgeable about child-development science. I find there remains a naïve perception resulting in the perilous implementation of procreative ‘rights’ as though the potential parent will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture the child’s naturally developing bodies, minds and needs.

    Although society cannot prevent anyone from bearing children, not even the plainly incompetent and reckless procreator, it can educate all young people for the most important job ever, even those intending to remain childless. And rather than being about instilling ‘values’, such child-development science curriculum should be about understanding, not just information memorization. It may even end up mitigating some of the familial dysfunction seemingly increasingly prevalent in society.

    If nothing else, such curriculum could offer students an idea/clue as to whether they’re emotionally suited for the immense responsibility and strains of parenthood. Given what is at stake, should they not at least be equipped with such important science-based knowledge?

    Crucial knowledge like: Since it cannot fight or flight, a baby hearing loud noises nearby, such as that of quarrelling parents, can only “move into a third neurological state, known as a ‘freeze’ state. … This freeze state is a trauma state” (pg.123). And it’s the unpredictability of a stressor, rather than the intensity, that does the most harm.

    When the stressor “is completely predictable, even if it is more traumatic — such as giving a [laboratory] rat a regularly scheduled foot shock accompanied by a sharp, loud sound — the stress does not create these exact same [negative] brain changes” (pg. 42).

    Mindlessly ‘minding our own business’ often proves humanly devastating, especially when child abuse is involved. And some people still hold a misplaced yet strong sense of entitlement when it comes to misperceiving children largely as obedient property.

    Yet, largely owing to the Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard mindset, however, the prevailing collective attitude (implicit or subconscious) basically follows: ‘Why should I care — my kids are alright?’ or (the even more self-serving) ‘What’s in it for me as a taxpayer?’
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    “I remember leaving the hospital thinking, ‘Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don’t know beans about babies! I don’t have a license to do this. We’re just amateurs’.”
    —Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

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    1. Kim Smyth Avatar
      Kim Smyth

      Thanks for your comment and for stopping by!

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