Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child

Kids today! It's a common cry of the older generations, in every generation. But honestly, what is it with kids today?

As a father of children who have all grown up and left home, I look at how the younger generation today expect to have everything handed to them on a silver platter and if they don't get what they want or like what they hear, the beast of their flesh that God named Satan and man calls ego, rises up within them like a serpent, from its pricked and wounded pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and/or fear for survival, and fills their mind with dark, poisonous thoughts that have their Source In Negativity, that causes them to hiss and spit venomous words like a viper or stomp and charge like an angry bull, etc.

They cry out, "You don't love me!"

But of course, they don't know WHAT true love is and it's no different to almost every other kid in history. As a parent I ignore their tantrums, won't pamper to their ego and don't smack my children (unless I rarely and genuinely have to). But still, I'm judged as a beast for punishing their unloving (unvirtuous/wicked) behavior, thanks to the egoistic self-righteousness of the do-gooders and their proud, vain, good intentions, who think that discipline (tough love) isn't true love and we should pamper to the whims of our children, because the truth is, they want to be pampered themselves. Those who have truly got over themselves know that while absolute, undying, true love is far from romantic, it's not without a TOUCH of romance or a TOUCH of tough love (wrath).

Cinderella may be a fairy tale, but like all good (virtuous) fairy tales about true love and its virtuous characteristics (fruits), it contains pearls of wisdom (common sense) and while none of us who wholeheartedly believe in TRUE love and know WHAT it is, agree with the cruel way Cinderella was treated, what we take away from it in this message, is that her stepsisters were spoiled, pampered brats who had very little virtue (were ugly within), while Cinderella who wasn't pampered in the slightest, was a princess and behaved like a perfect gentlewoman (saint) even when she was dressed in rags and slept in the attic, and her crown (halo) was her shining, majestic virtuousness (righteousness).

Because we are all born into a carnal, instinctual and egoistic (self-centered) world and at times (most of the time) our thoughts, words and deeds are corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled by the beast of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of our flesh that God named Satan and man calls ego, we sometimes need the short, sharp shock of a slap in the face or smack on the bottom to snap us out of it and unfortunately for the do-gooders, they're going to find out too late, that God is not a pamperer of egos (respecter of persons) and that hell is full of do-gooders and the broad road (highway) to it, truly is paved with their good intentions. While the narrow path to Heaven is paved with broken hearts and littered with all the worldly possessions, cares, concerns, desires, hopes and dreams of those brave, courageous souls who forsook all and had the courage, faith, commitment, integrity and humility, etc. (virtuousness), to WALK the narrow path and go through its debrainwashing/cleansing process of many trials, tribulations, humiliations, visions, revelations and supernatural encounters, the winepress, mill and wringer (school of hard knocks), that we who forsook all and have walked it, call the Job workshop (RE: The Book of Job).

You won't find them crying over spilt milk or pampering to THE BEAST of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of their flesh and its characteristic pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort or fear for survival, because they did what it took to overcome it (get over themselves) and have been washed clean (debrainwashed) of every spot and blemish of it, that stained/marked their character with its sinful (unvirtuous) characteristics.

They've truly matured and know that God IS love and that love (therefore God) is not religious, carnal, instinctual or egoistic in any way, shape or form, but is absolutely egoless and virtuous, beyond the shadow of any doubt. That TRUE love's characteristic virtuousness is absolutely majestic, and makes them absolutely perfect gentlemen and gentlewomen of TRUE love, saints by any other name.

I really don't expect you to understand, but you will when God's wrath (tough love) comes upon every character that's spotted, stained, marked and blemished with the unvirtuous (sinful) characteristics of the flesh and supernaturally strikes its central nervous system with its absolute, paralyzing, petrifying, gripping fear (the absolute fear of God), that will cause it to spontaneously combust and literally leave them without a leg to stand on (Malachi 4). Not from anger or to punish, but from true love's righteous (virtuous) indignation, to cleanse the world of every spot, stain, mark and blemish of that which is not of absolute, undying, true love and its characteristic, majestic virtues. In short, to wipe out every trace of ego, the true enemy of the one, true, living, Great Omniscient Deity of absolute, undying, true love and majestic virtuousness, that makes everyone their own, worst enemy, point the finger of blame at everyone else and make them out to be their enemy, and causes them to be an enemy of God (in opposition to true love & virtuousness).

I'm not your enemy. I'm just trying to make ends meet and awaken people to what they already know to be true, deep down in their heart of hearts (soul). Unfortunately, to do that, you have to get past their ego, that instinctively & egoistically reacts and resists the honest to God truth that pricks and wounds (confronts & offends) it and reacts by bearing false witness of your character, hissing and spitting venomous words like a viper, stomping and charaging like an raging bull, etc. Ignorant, savage, pig-headed beast that it is and there's just no getting through the thick, proud walls of those minds that are corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled (brainwashed, stained/marked & led) by THE BEAST of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of their flesh and its sinful characteristics.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living GodHebrews 10:31

Grace (gracefulness and graciousness) and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God (absolute love) and of Jesus our Lord (role model and mentor), as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (and other characteristics of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of the flesh).2 Peter 2-4

"Brood of vipers (egos)! Who warned you (and invited you now) to flee from the wrath to come?"Luke 3:7