Raising Children In God's Will (118) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 4. Love of Parents
3) The Flow of the Parents' Heart - 3
Which side would parents take when brothers in one family fight with each other? There are no parents which take the side of a child who raises his fist first for his own desires. That is why, throughout history, the standard of education and moral principle was to be good. (31-235)
So, if there was a son born into a rich family with the largest farmland in the world, when he rides the horse every day, that is not enough to make his parents love him. It is not like that.
Parents love children which help the parents when they are doing difficult physical work, even if he has no occupation and hangs around the house all the time. That sort of person is a wise person. It is like the position of Esau and Jacob. (33-324)
God does not want to put us in a low position, even if we are inadequate. Although the child is inadequate, the heart of parents wants to put them in a higher position.
In this society, a friend or a teacher might want to put us in a low position if we are inadequate, but God would want to put us in a higher, more noble position. Inadequate people might think God pays less attention to them, but God worries more for inadequate people. You must understand this. (24-161)
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