Why and how does God discipline us? Posted Tuesday, July 21, am. Paul Baxter. Keywords apologetics , discipline. Other items that may interest you. Lessons from the Atlanta Braves: Never quit, never let up, keep pressing ahead. Pastor's wife: 'God is good. Ask him to guide you into a lifestyle of greater confession, repentance, forgiveness, and healing.
Friend's Email Address. Your Name. Your Email Address. Send Email. Skip to content Search for. Introduction Discipline can be a tricky subject. Devotional Our world despises discipline.
Hebrews says, It is for discipline that you have to endure. Prayer 1. Go Sometimes the best instruments of correction are fellow believers. Ask the Lord if there is anyone you need to confess your sin to. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. May you experience the entire abundant life available to you through the loving discipline of your heavenly Father and the fellow believers he has placed in your midst. I know God loves them, but He saw something in me that He was not going to allow me to continue on in my foolishness.
If God is not punishing you for the things that you are doing wrong then you should be worried. The Bible clearly states that God chastises those He loves. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Hebrews Meaning that if God is not worried about you then maybe you have fallen so far off the deep end that He does not even care what you do.
So why waste the effort? I have been through my fair share of suffering just like I know many of you have been through your fair share of suffering.
Many years ago, I took this job at this fraudulent company and they wanted me to do things that I knew for a fact that I was not supposed to be doing. But I wanted to keep my job. Soon I lost my job because the company went out of business. It took me a while to get another job because I am sure that this was the chastising that was coming from God. I knew that company was shady and I chose to say yes because I wanted money and did not listen to God when He told me that I did not need to do the things they were asking me to do.
You can check out my single mother story and the time that I was failing as a parent for more at that time in my life. But now that I am out of it, it has made me so much stronger! There were times when I did not know how I was going to pay my bills or even how I was going to eat and somehow God made away.
And when God made a way it grew my trust in God in the sense that I knew that if I could make it through that then I could make it through anything. And all God is requiring of me is to do my part. Before I continue I also want you to check out my video on what it means exactly to glory in your suffering so you can get a better understanding on what I mean. Revelation Those I love, I rebuke and discipline.
Therefore be earnest and repent. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. For what son is not disciplined by his father? Treasury of Scripture For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives.
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