Here’s a question I wish everybody who comes across this to pose to themselves. Ask yourself, “What would I do if my children didn’t love me?” Let’s say that you’ve been a good parent (father or mother) and that you did everything in your power to make your children happy. You gave them everything they need so they can live better and fuller lives. You were always there when they cried and you picked them up when they fell down. But still they didn’t love you, what would you do?
Would you still continue loving them? Or would you banish them from your home? What would you do?
What if you took a good beating for your child’s mistakes to such a point that you were hospitalized only to find out that your child didn’t even bother visiting you in the hospital or leaving a note beside you? Would you still love your child? Or would you make sure that he or she gets punished?
You see, I’m asking you this question because I’m thinking why would an “all-loving” God send me to hell if I didn’t love him back? Why would this God let me suffer in eternity if I chose not to respect him? Did he create hell so that unbelievers would believe? So that they would love him, perhaps out of fear?
My answer to my own question on what I’d do if my children didn’t love me is simple and straightforward. I’d still love them. I might use the rod once in a while but I will never ever banish them from my presence. Never will I let them suffer. The more they hate me, the closer I’ll bring them to my heart because that is the only thing I know that is right for me to do.
What about you? What would you do?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:11 am
“I might use the rod once in a while”
… wait, wait, you might beat your children? Seriously?
And you tell yourself that this is necessary and/or useful?
What would it take for you to do that? Do you already do it sometimes?
I hope I misunderstood. You were sounding so reasonable just before that sentence.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Hi, by “use the rod” I meant give them a “kind” spanking not really beat them up. Not too strong as to harm them but not to weak for them to ignore it.