06/24/2026
A good father is willing to be temporarily misunderstood —if that means protecting, providing for, and showing love for his children. Love is compassion with boundaries.
For example, If a dad sees his child reach for something dangerous, the dad will quickly move into action to move the child away from the harmful object which can result in the child temporarily thinking negatively about the dad but in reality the dad is saving the child from harm. (This is why a dad may quickly slap a child’s hand away from a hot stove or electric outlet and he doesn’t hand over his car keys to his child even though they may ask).
The child may not understand in the moment but they will come to understand — that their dad was protecting them because he loves them.
Like the dad in example, Our Heavenly Father is more concerned about our safety, well being, and eternal destination than the temporary things of this present world.
(Hebrews 12: 3-11)
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
(Proverbs 22:6) Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.