My son’s theology is problematic. The term ‘wild at heart’ comes to mind. How do I, as a father and grace believer,
deal with this?
The
word of God is the issue. As we grow in
the word, particularly the rightly-divided word (i.e., the Pauline Grace
message), we as men and fathers begin to learn how God deals with us as sons
and how he tells us to deal with our children.
Your son is a young man now at 13; he’s not fully mature and ready to be
out on his own, but he’s getting there.
His testosterone is increasing, and his testing of you will continue as
he gets stronger physically and emotionally and he will become more aggressive
as he grows into a man.
But
he also looks to you as his father and role model of all the things that he
needs to know to be a real man in this world.
As you might know, I didn't have my father growing up and it has
hindered me. It has discouraged me, just
as the scriptures say:
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke
not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord.
The
two most important things that your son needs are:
· your physical and emotional presence; and
· raising him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
That
is what you’re doing for your son – you’re there for him; but the most important thing is that you are
raising him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
But speak thou the
things which become sound doctrine:
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in
charity, in patience. In all things shewing
thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness,
gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that
cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed,
having no evil thing to say of you.
Hopefully this
helps...Maranatha!
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