BBD 08.31.16 Raising Children (Classic)

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Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

31 August 2016

Raising
Children

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not
depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6 NKJV.

It is not really all that surprising as to what has happened in the Providence,
Rhode Island, Roger Williams Middle School. And, what you say, happened in the
Middle School named for Roger Williams first governor of the Rhode Island
colony and founder of the first Baptist church in America? What happened was
that in a conference with Aleyda Uceta the mother of a student at the school
the principal, Rudolph Moseley, Jr., told the mother that her son was being
suspended for three days. The exact nature of the son’s offense is not known
except that he was told to go to a room where students with disciplinary
problems were placed, and he refused to go to the room.

What happened next about the conference with the student’s mother would have
been shocking 20 years ago, but I am not sure that it is any more. After being
told about the disciplinary problems with her son, Aleyda became very angry
yelling at the principal, and then she punched him in the face and bit him.
When the principal tried to protect himself by pushing the mother away, the
son, who was also present at the conference, also hit the principal. A teacher
tried to calm Aleyda, but she also punched that teacher in the face. After
police officers arrived, Aleyda continued to try to attack the principal, and
then did bite an officer, and hit one of the officers in the face. Another
officer suffered a back injury during the incident.

I think we can see the way Aleyda has trained up her son to go. Her son’s
disciplinary problems are not surprising after we learn of the mother’s violent
behavior. I still read the court records published each week in our newspaper,
and sometimes find the names of former clients that were on my caseload while I
was a parole officer. In addition, now I also find the names of many of their
children who are now in trouble for criminal activity as well. Little eyes see
what you are doing, and little feet follow down the path that you have gone.

It is sad that in a school named for Roger Williams that behavior like this is
seen. Maybe if they were to teach a history class about him and his faith it
might reduce the amount of disciplinary problems that they have. If the
children were exposed to the writings
of Williams it might make a difference. They could read
words like these: “…in civil things we
may be servants unto men, yet in Divine and Spiritual things the poorest
peasant must disdain the service of the highest Prince.” Williams also wrote, “Government and order in families, towns, etc., is the
ordinance of the Most High (Romans 13), for the peace and good of mankind.” He wrote too that, “The Lord Jesus is a Christian garment (Romans 13:14): O, let us
keep that blessed garment always close about us.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go.” Whether with conscious effort, or unconsciously, every
parent is training their children to go in some direction in life. Sadly, great
numbers of parents are training their children to go down the road toward evil
and violence. Others are training their children to avoid church, and the words
of life that they desperately need to live an abundant and effective life. How
are you training your children? What direction are they headed toward with
their lives?

Copyright © 2009-2016. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

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Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
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Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for healing for Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Damon D. & wife, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister), Loretta Brewer, Gary Kirk, Lexi McCalip and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

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Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

31 August 2016

Raising
Children

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not
depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6 NKJV.

It is not really all that surprising as to what has happened in the Providence,
Rhode Island, Roger Williams Middle School. And, what you say, happened in the
Middle School named for Roger Williams first governor of the Rhode Island
colony and founder of the first Baptist church in America? What happened was
that in a conference with Aleyda Uceta the mother of a student at the school
the principal, Rudolph Moseley, Jr., told the mother that her son was being
suspended for three days. The exact nature of the son’s offense is not known
except that he was told to go to a room where students with disciplinary
problems were placed, and he refused to go to the room.

What happened next about the conference with the student’s mother would have
been shocking 20 years ago, but I am not sure that it is any more. After being
told about the disciplinary problems with her son, Aleyda became very angry
yelling at the principal, and then she punched him in the face and bit him.
When the principal tried to protect himself by pushing the mother away, the
son, who was also present at the conference, also hit the principal. A teacher
tried to calm Aleyda, but she also punched that teacher in the face. After
police officers arrived, Aleyda continued to try to attack the principal, and
then did bite an officer, and hit one of the officers in the face. Another
officer suffered a back injury during the incident.

I think we can see the way Aleyda has trained up her son to go. Her son’s
disciplinary problems are not surprising after we learn of the mother’s violent
behavior. I still read the court records published each week in our newspaper,
and sometimes find the names of former clients that were on my caseload while I
was a parole officer. In addition, now I also find the names of many of their
children who are now in trouble for criminal activity as well. Little eyes see
what you are doing, and little feet follow down the path that you have gone.

It is sad that in a school named for Roger Williams that behavior like this is
seen. Maybe if they were to teach a history class about him and his faith it
might reduce the amount of disciplinary problems that they have. If the
children were exposed to the writings
of Williams it might make a difference. They could read
words like these: “…in civil things we
may be servants unto men, yet in Divine and Spiritual things the poorest
peasant must disdain the service of the highest Prince.” Williams also wrote, “Government and order in families, towns, etc., is the
ordinance of the Most High (Romans 13), for the peace and good of mankind.” He wrote too that, “The Lord Jesus is a Christian garment (Romans 13:14): O, let us
keep that blessed garment always close about us.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go.” Whether with conscious effort, or unconsciously, every
parent is training their children to go in some direction in life. Sadly, great
numbers of parents are training their children to go down the road toward evil
and violence. Others are training their children to avoid church, and the words
of life that they desperately need to live an abundant and effective life. How
are you training your children? What direction are they headed toward with
their lives?

Copyright © 2009-2016. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for healing for Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Damon D. & wife, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister), Loretta Brewer, Gary Kirk, Lexi McCalip and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
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sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
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