Tough Love - Nursing Home

Tough Love

Tough love, as most of us understand it, is having wisdom enough to withhold expected or demanded help from a friend or family member not because you fail to love them, but because you do love them. My permitting your suffering for sin, your lumps for misjudgment, your financial setbacks for poor decision making, is the far more intelligent and compassionate thing to do. It is to refuse to rob a loved one of the benefits of a lesson learned in the school of hard knocks.

This principle of tough love is not merely a human concept or modern psychological theory - it is fundamentally rooted in the character and nature of God Himself. Throughout Scripture, we see our Heavenly Father demonstrating this very principle with His children. He loves us too much to leave us unchanged, ...