Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Today, we will focus on one simple and single verse … Listen to Proverbs 29:17 … Discipline your children, and they will give you peace of mind and will make your heart glad. (NLT) In our western culture, we tend to always associate discipline only with punishment. But the true definition and connotation of discipline is structure, form, parameters, guardrails. Yes, punishment and consequences are involved, but that is the defense aspect of discipline. The offense is proper training. Think of today’s verse this way … Give your children the proper training and structure and they will give you peace of mind and will make your heart glad.Listen to The Message Bible’s take on this verse … Discipline your children; you’ll be glad you did— they’ll turn out delightful to live with.What if you were able to turn the meaning of discipline around in your home to be associated with delightful? Wouldn’t delightful make your home more peaceful?Take a step this week toward this new concept of discipline—structure and form to operate within.What is one form of structure that you can do this week to bring a sense of stability and peace in your home?Let’s pray together: “Heavenly Father, guide me, teach me to bring more of the kind of discipline You as a loving Father want in my home. Bring peace. Bring delight. I’ll take all of that I can get. As above, so below.”