If you feel sad…who are you…Biblically…supposed to “cry out” to? To God. And, what will He do? He’ll be there, right?
What are you NOT supposed to do when you’re sad? Do the “new age” thing of “looking inside yourself”…right? You’re not to look to yourSELF for comfort, right? Nor, are you to look to “material” things…or to say a “bottle” of beer, true?
What about when you’re scared? Biblically? What are you to do? Who are you to cry out to and what will He do? Will He hear you? Will He care? Will He respond? If you’re afraid, what are you NOT supposed to look to for strength and help?
How about when you’re just feeling lonely? Biblically…who are you to look to? Who are you to “cry out” to? And, what will He do in response?
What about if you need “strength”? What about if you feel “uncomfortable” with your life? What about if you have “pain”? What if you just feel like you need love? WHO are you to cry out to? WHO are you to look to? Biblically…to God, right?
Biblically, are you ever supposed to look to “yourself” for comfort when you’re sad…scared…lonely…weak…uncomfortable or in pain? NO! Looking to ourSELVES is what gets us into…what? TROUBLE. Right.
THEN WHY WHY WHY WHY??? WHY??? DO “Christian” parents…who are instructed to “train up their children IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO”…WHY…do they fall for the evil “doctrine” of “self-soothing”…WHY…do we not see that leaving our babies alone to “cry-it-out” only only only teaches them after they realize that they are ALONE…to look “within”…to look “to themselves”…for comfort? Why do we not see how really wrong that whole old-wives-tale we Western Cultures people have been sucked into is?
Christian parents…you need to treat your children like small PEOPLE…people who look to you for guidance in how they should go when they are old…WILL YOUR CHILDREN look outside themselves believing that their comfort will come from an all loving Parent…or do they “self-soothe”…have they been trained that no matter how hard they cry or how long…that no one is coming…that they are…ALONE…and that they must look within themselves for their comfort? That their strength…their comfort…their relief of pain or fear…comes from within…and from whatever material thing they have control over (blanket, pillow, bottle)…
They are not “just babies” they are small people who WILL NOT FORGET the lessons they learn in their cribs…
Science has learned that the human brain is a “relational” organ that prospers in healthy relation with others…and it withers and dies in solitude…Romans 1 says that everything that’s made reveals to us how God is…The whole concept of “self-soothing” is Biblically wrong…and biologically hazardous…please…please…if you are a new or future parent…think about this…and follow your God-given instincts and biology and respond to that little person when they cry out to you…and someday after they have full confidence in your presence…you can pass that “baton” on to God…and they will fully trust Him because you trained them up in that way that they should go…
