🌬💫🍃📅 January 12th 🛐

Today carries a gentle but firm invitation 🌤️🛐—the kind that shapes you over time, not in a rush ⏳🕊️. The adults who move through life with mature wisdom 🧔‍♂️👩‍🦰✨ are often the “grown-up versions” of children who were trained well early on 👶📘. Everything starts with someone loving enough to guide, correct, and teach 🤲🧭—because until discipline is offered, there’s no real moment of choice between acceptance and refusal 🚪⚖️. And the earlier loving discipline is planted 🌱, the greater the opportunity for wisdom to grow into a strong tree 🌳📖.

Today highlights how training leaves fingerprints on the soul 🖐️💗. Both the wise child and the mocker come from what they’ve been shaped by 🧩🛠️. Mockery is not “just a phase” 😏🚫—it’s a form of disrespect that must be faced early, before it becomes a lifestyle. Sometimes a child’s ability to poke fun at others gets labeled “cute” 🧸😅, but over time that “skill” can harden into a habit 🔁🪨. Then the heart grows so used to disrespecting others through sarcasm and mockery 🗣️⚔️ that listening starts to feel nearly impossible 👂🚪.

And here’s the truth for today: children aren’t born wise 👶❌📚. Wisdom is taught through loving and courageous discipline ❤️🛡️. When that guidance isn’t given, mockery and other natural signs of sin begin to take over 🌪️🕳️. But wise parents—and wise mentors—don’t do this journey alone 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🤝. They seek help from God and His Word every step of the process 📖🙏✨.

So today, let your spirit be teachable 🕊️🧠. If correction comes, don’t stiffen 😤🚫—soften 🤲💛. If wisdom is offered, don’t argue—absorb 🧽📘. Let the Lord untangle any pride that makes you resist guidance 🪢🪞, and let humility turn you into someone who can hear, grow, and change 🌱🌟. Accept correction today—because it’s not rejection, it’s protection 🛡️🤍.

“A wise child accepts a parent’s discipline; a mocker refuses to listen to correction.”

Proverbs 13:1 🛐🙏✝️