The Writer of Hebrews drew on the Old Testament Scripture from Deuteronomy 8:5 which said, “As a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.” But most times, when we think of discipline, it’s in a negative fashion. And to think that all the suffering and adversity I’m going through right now is God’s way of disciplining me…well, that’s kind of hard to wrap my head around. But if I can think of God’s divine chastisement in a very different way…in a Revelation 3:19 way, “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.” then, I can see His discipline in the form of this hardship as correction in order to change my behavior, not meant to harm or anger, but to educate me to conform to His divine Truth. And as David attested to in I Chronicles 21:13, God’s correction is far better than that of man…for His mercy is very great.
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