Children Need a Bible and a Belt

Have you noticed that the more politically correct this culture gets, the worse off it gets for everybody? Many believe that we need to get rid of guns since they are the cause of so many violent deaths. No, guns aren't the cause of all the violent deaths we are seeing today with people going into classrooms and murdering children. People have owned guns in America since it began over 200 years ago and nothing like this has been seen until the past ten years.

The causes of so many unnatural deaths we are seeing today is because we live in a culture of death. Millions of babies are being murdered in the womb. Feminism has caused the death of many marriages; wives have left their homes for careers and no longer have time to be help meets to their husbands or raise their children. Our entitlement mentality and lifetime welfare culture has caused the death of hard-working men who provide for their families, get married and raise their children. Getting rid of the Bible in our society has caused the death of morality and living by what is good and right. Parents raising their children without proper discipline and boundaries has led to the death of obedient and self-controlled children.

Children used to be obedient, had self-control and knew right from wrong. Now, they have no moral compass and have no clue what is right from wrong. They need to be taught to be obedient, respect authority and the value of life from conception through old age. They need to be taught to work hard and be responsible. They need to be taught God's ordained role for them as  a male or female. They need to be taught to be covenant keepers until "death do they part."

Joey and Rory sang a song called A Bible and a Belt. We raised our children with a Bible and a belt. We believed in teaching them God's Word from the time they were little. We also believed in the rod that the Bible exhorts parents to use. He who withholds his rod hates his son; But he who loves him disciplines him diligently {Proverbs 13:24}.

They were both made of leather

 Both black and frayed and worn

And I was brought up to respect them

Since the day that I was born

One came here from England

And it's been handed down for years

The other one was ordered from

A catalog at Sears

One my mama read to me

Till I was well into my teens

And I thought all the other one was for

Was to hold up daddy’s jeans

Till I told a lie and learned

It had another purpose too

And out behind the shed, my daddy said

This'll hurt me more than you

‘Cause one had my daddy’s name on it

The other said King James

With love they taught us lessons

But we feared them both the same

One led us to heaven

And the other left a whelp

Those were the days when kids were raised

With a bible and a belt

I remember when I was twelve

I stole a dime store comic book

And how mama read where the scripture said

To take back what I took

When I refused my daddy grabbed

My arm and said “come on”

I needed more, he knew than just Matthew,

Mark, Luke and John

Sometimes it made me cry

Sometimes it made me fightin' mad

And I wish I'd been raised without them

Like some other children had

But now I’m grown with kids of my own

And I know just how they felt

You know it seems to me what the world still needs

Is a bible and a belt

‘Cause one had my daddy’s name on it

The other said King James

With love they taught us lessons

But we feared them both the same

One led us to heaven

And the other hurt like hell

But those were the days when kids were raised

With a bible and a belt

 A bible and a belt.

You'd have to be blind to see how out-of-control and rebellious children are today and the destruction that is coming from it. These same children turn out to be out-of-control and rebellious adults. It's time to go back to the Word of God and obey it!

For further guidance on raising children to be obedient and trained in the ways of the Lord, I highly recommend the Pearl's book To Train Up a Child. If you've read my posts for very long, you know I have no desire to be politically correct. My only desire is to be biblically correct in everything. 

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

Colossians 3:16

***There is a prayer vigil for Joey tonight at 5:00 CT.  "But please, one thing I ask, don't pray that Joey is healed. Yes, pray for a miracle, but also pray for peace in her heart, and ours, if God chooses not to let this cup pass from her sweet lips. His will, not ours." {From her husband Rory}