Care for Love

4 June 2007 - Care for Love

Proverbs 28:23

He who rebukes a man will the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

As a child in the family, I personally understand the power of love. At once, I didn’t understand how my parents can love me if they are willing to scold me and punish me. There is no way a person love will become a rebuke and punish. As I asked the people around me, why they scolded me when I was wrong, they said,

“Punish is care, Rebuke is love”

“打是疼，骂是爱”

I still can’t get anything out of it, but now I knew, if a person does not love, he or she doesn’t bother to care about you, neither does he or she scolds you.

Now we change the focus from the person who scolds to the person who is being scolded. Solomon once said:

Pro 19:20

“Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise.”

You will indeed learnt a lot by a rebuke and instruction, it is just the matter of are you willing to receive it or not. If you are willing to listen and accept, then you will be learning of something that you can apply for the rest of your life.

Nothing is more beneficial than the rebuke of parents to children, parents undoubting will give the best of them to their children for their own good, they will teach almost everything they understood. When we had done wrong, they do not feel tedious to rebuke us; even sometimes we thought that they are so long-aired and speaking non-stop. In the process of growth, you will soon experienced that how wise did your parents are when they gave lessons to you.

Learn to accept their love, through their rebukes. For rebukes come from love, which requires much endurance to do so.

Franco