Monday, July 27, 2009

Touch Bound

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Bound: qâshar (pronounced: kaw-shar'):

  • To tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league): bind (bind up), (make a) conspire (conspiracy, conspirator), join together, knit, stronger, work [treason].
Bound Up In (idiom):

  • Inseparably connected with.

  • Devoted or attached to.

  • Also, bound up with. Deeply or inextricably involved in. For example, Obviously the candidate was bound up with the negotiations on the party platform, or She is bound up in her church activities. This usage appears in the Bible (Genesis 44:30): "His life is bound up in the lad's life." [Late 1500s]
Genesis 44:30-32
"So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life, sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow. Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said, 'If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!'"

-So... folly is bound up in a heart of a child. It is deeply involved in a child's heart. It is confined in the heart. How about this one: Foolishness is joined together with the heart of a child. It is joined in there... JOINED! The rod of discipline is the tool that does the heart surgery. You use the rod and it removes the foolishness from the child. And if you have a little boy, you can definitely see the foolishness. My son RUNS to trouble. He runs to foolishness.
Rod: shêbet (pronounced: shay'-bet):

  • Meaning to branch off; a scion, that is, (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Spare a switch... Johnny Out.

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