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The comprehensive “do not” of fatherhood is followed by the explicit “do’s” — “instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord” — which, when fully understood, requires three “do’s”: tenderness, discipline, and instruction. The words “bring them up” mean “to nourish or feed,” as in 5:29 which has the same Greek words describing how a man “feeds and cares” for his ownbody. Calvin translates “bring them up” as “let them be kindly cherished,” and goes on to emphasize that the overall idea is to speak to one’s children with gentleness and friendliness.
We are to be tender. Men are never manlier than when they are tender with their children — whether holding a baby in their arms, loving their grade-schooler, or hugging their teenager or adult children. Here, a statement from the wise Christian philosopher Elton Trueblood is to the point, extending the principle further.
A child, he says, . . . needs also to know that his father and his mother are lovers, quite and apart from their relationship to him. It is the father’s responsibility to make the child know that he is deeply in love with the child’s mother. There is no good reason why all evidence of affection should be hidden or carried on in secret. A child who grows up with the realization that his parents are lovers has a wonderful basis of stability. Tenderness — verbal and physical — comes naturally to a father living under God’s Word. Men, how do we measure up?
GLORY BE TO GOD WHO PERFECRS FATHERS
References:
The Living Bible
Discipline of a Godly Man( Book by Kent Hughes)
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