Job
5:
17 "Behold, blessed is the one whom God
reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
18 For he
wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
Proverbs 3:
11 My son, do not
despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the
LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Hebrews
12:
5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses
you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives."
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure.
God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not
discipline?
8 If you are left without discipline, in which
all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who
disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the
Father of spirits and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as
it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share
his holiness.
11 For the
moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields
the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
1Cor 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may
not be condemned along with the world.
Rev 3:19
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
The Father disciplines (disciples) those whom He loves.God’s discipline is
not His wrath. It is not a “punishment”. It is His reproof and correction. His
primary means of disciplining is through His Word and in addition, many times,
through our circumstances. To be corrected by the Lord in this life is a good
thing and is a mercy granted only to His true children. It produces the fruit
in our lives that He has chosen us to produce. It is the pruning of the vine by
the vinedresser.
2Timothy
3:
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness,
17 that the
man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.(the peaceful fruit of
righteousness;Eph2:10)
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