You will understand when you're older.

I found myself telling this my girls as I had to discipline them.  I swore I would never use this line or the one that says "this hurts me worse than it hurts you."  Surprisingly, I haven't used that one yet.  Yet, it is something I truly struggle with as a parent, the whole disciplining thing.  Somehow, the enemy loves to use it as a tool to manipulate you into thinking that you are this awful parent who deserves eternal punishment.  But I found this passage in Proverbs that puts it into prospective for me out of the New Living Translation; "Don't fail to correct your children. They won't die if you spank them."  I thank God for the chastening that He gives to us, even at the time that we don't want it (see Hebrews 12:11.)  I am sure that my children won't understand right now.  They don't get that their mother and father not only have to bring correction to them but we have to discipline.  Can we just hire someone to do this? I guess it would be wrong.  "We are to be in the image of God As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who was never disciplined?  If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all.  Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever?" Hebrews 12:7-9