Lest They Stumble

Oh, what troubles a grown man has!
To have to put up with defrauding images
Of scantily-dressed women.
He doesn’t know where to look.
He doesn’t know what to think.
His wife and daughters all dress modestly
Because grown men should not
have to be subjected to ‘all that’.

Oh, what joy a trained child brings!
What discipline, what self-control!
When God wanted to train Adam and Eve,
He did not remove temptation but rather,
placed it right in front of them.
“Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
And so the godly parent places temptation
before his child and trains him.
“Do not touch!” “Leave it alone!”
Mothers of well-trained children
confidently take their children anywhere
knowing that they will not misbehave
or, act outside the boundaries
of appropriate behavior.
The well-trained child exercises self-control
Even when temptation abounds.

Oh, what troubles a grown man has!
To have to put up with defrauding images
Of scantily-dressed women.
He doesn’t know where to look.
He doesn’t know what to think.
His wife and daughters all dress modestly
Because grown men should not
have to be subjected to ‘all that’.
Lest they stumble.

 

Inspired by a reading of this.