Big Rocks Hurt

When I was a kid my brother and I were playing Nintendo. The original Nintendo. We were playing this Ronald McDonald game. It was packed full of fun. That really has nothing to do with the story. While it was my brother’s turn he did something in the game that I thought was stupid, so I told him he was stupid. To my misfortune my Dad heard me say this. My dad called me upstairs and said if I called my brother stupid again he would whip me with the belt. Well being the dumb five or six year old I was I called Jared stupid again, and guess what…… My dad heard me. My dad who is a man that sticks to his guns did just as he said he would, he took the belt to the back of my thighs. Being a tough guy I want to say it didn’t hurt, that I could handle it. Yeah right! It stinking hurts to get a belt across the back of your thighs. You know what happen after that? I didn’t call my brother stupid anymore. I was unkind to my brother and I was disobedient to my dad, who told me not to do something and I did it anyway. My dad punished me for what I did.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

I’m sure glad I don’t live under this rule anymore. I would have been dead a long time ago. This makes me realize God takes it seriously when we are rebellious or disobedient to our parents. I wasn’t always happy with the rules my parents gave me, but I had no right to go against what they said. They were the authority figures over me. God does not tolerate when we go against our parents. I see a lot of kids today being rebellious and not listening to mom and dad. Maybe we need to go back to this rule. Maybe when kids start smarting off to their parents we should just take them out back and throw baseball sized rocks at them until they get the idea that what they are doing is wrong. Just a thought.

More to come….