As a Father Pitieth His Children (5):Reformed Child-Rearing
Discipline is no enemy of parental love for their children. Rather, love demands discipline, if this love for children reflects God’s love for His children. The experience of every believer convinces him of the truth of this, for the Heavenly Father disciplines every one of His children. Scripture teaches this emphatically. It is the powerful doctrine of Hebrews 12, not only that the God Who loves us also chastises us, but also that it is exactly His Fatherly love that chastises: “For whom the...