"Spare the rod, ...

spoil the child."  Very good advice repeated by many.  What does it mean? It certainly does not mean take a stick and beat the living hell out of your child.  The "rod" is knowledge, teach your child.  Teach them GOD's precepts, His laws.  Tell them about the covenant with GOD they are under.

GOD warned us about this generation of vipers to come. Believe me, they are here.  But, all is not lost.  We can still be saved from ourselves.

Parents, sit down with your children and study the Bible.  It is rather ironic.  As wicked as my mother is, she always made us study the Bible.  We were required to memorize a Bible verse weekly and repeat it on Sunday morning as we sat around the breakfast table with our grits getting cold, hard and stiff.

I loved it.  I would show off by memorizing the longest verse I could find.  I had one brother that was a bully.  "Jesus wept" was his verse and we were all forbidden to take his verse.

Children, if you don't keep that covenant with GOD you will be cursed.  It is a generational curse but it can be broken. Parents you can explain GOD's commandments without frustration.  You can teach with kind words.

If you love your child and you see they are making very bad decisions, tell them.  Don't enable your child.  If you have uneducated, unskilled children making baby after baby out of wedlock.  You have a selfish uncaring child.  They are not concerned with the economic hardship they are putting on you and they can not care less about what they are doing to those fatherless children.

Pastors, preach the WORD.  If some one gets offended and stops attending your church, so what?  Trust GOD, He will send you some members.

"Lets go back to the old landmark." Let's go back to the WORD that got us here.  A very shocking historical fact is blacks did better economically under blatant Jim Crow racism in this country than now.  Emerging from the shadows of slavery that first generation of freemen acquired land, houses and businesses.  It's rather  sad but it was when the government started helping us that we began losing.

Real teachers of the WORD expired or were taken from us.  Our children became wayward and disrespectful.  Too many of us decided that it was better to suffer in silence than experience the rebuke these vipers were sure to rain down on our heads.

I say take your lumps and tell these children the truth.  "Stop writing all over yourself!(tattoos)  You are going to regret it.  You don't know what is in that ink."  "Flee fornication.  If you can't flee fornication, then marry."

Just a WORD.  Encourage your children with GOD's WORD, warn them when they are headed down the wrong path.  Too many of us talk about our children while failing to even try to reach them. Is it their fault that  there is nothing but filth on television?  Did they sell out the real role models for filthy lucre?

Parents, teacher, coaches, please remind our children to look well to their going, their coming out and going in.

Stay in His WORD children.  Remember:"Apart from Christ we are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth, engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn (the exceeding proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)

Copyright 2013 All rights reserved