Enduring God’s Loving Discipline

Proverbs 3:11-12

My Child, don’t reject the Lords discipline and don’t be upset when he corrects you. For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights

These are encouraging words from the scripture regarding God’s “loving” discipline. God can turn a wide variety of trials and difficulties to our good, training us in righteousness and holy character.

Discipline should be seen as a necessary, healthy and important component of preparing a child for adulthood. A lack of fatherly discipline or a lack of hardship in life can be seen as a mark of illegitimacy and not a blessing. Seeing a child that lacks moral discipline in spite of his background should be frown upon and unaccepted.

God’s discipline can be seen as a way of humbling us during childhood hence allowing us to adopt a posture of yielding to God as to a good Father, trusting that he is helping us grow even through painful circumstances.

An earthly father’s discipline is only for a few years because eventually a child will leave home. Secondly earthly fathers can only do their best from their limited perspectives. By contrast, God’s discipline lasts throughout one’s life and is always good for us. Although it is painful, his discipline brings about a peaceful harvest of right living. It brings us as God children into a state of conducive to harmonious relationships and doing what is right.

So therefore, let us be encouraged who are emotionally and spiritually exhausted. According to Isaiah 35, God is in the process of defeating our enemies and is making a straight path for the righteous so that we will not fall.

God bless