We are simply saying that instruction is more acceptable when it springs from a positive spirit. This will virtually eliminate the negative criticism many parents continually offer. But he knows our weaknesses and he doesn't continually pick at us and fuss at us for our failures. But if you sin, there is someone to plead for you before the Father. We need to have it when our children fail to live up to our expectations.
Criticism is one of the most disheartening elements of life.
We all know what it means to do the best we can, only to have somebody find fault with it. Yet many parents feed their children a constant diet of negative criticism. Well, I see you finally cleaned up your room. George was a young man with a fractured ego. He told me it had been his regular chore to keep the basement clean when he was a boy.