DO
NOT DESPISE DISCIPLINE
BREAD
12 Blessed
is the man you discipline, O Lord,
the man you teach from your law. Psalms
94:12 (NIV)
5 Know
then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. Deuteronomy 8:5 (NIV)
33 They
turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and
again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. Jeremiah 32:33 (NIV)
11 My
son, do not despise the Lord's
discipline and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the Lord
disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)
5 A fool
spurns his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows
prudence. Proverbs 15:5 (NIV)
32 He who
ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains
understanding. Proverbs 15:32 (NIV)
5 And
you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: “My
son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he
rebukes you, 6 because
the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a
son.” 7 Endure hardship as discipline;
God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined
(and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not
true sons. 9 Moreover,
we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it.
How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for
a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that
we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.
Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those
who have been trained by it. Hebrews
12:5-11 (NIV)
19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and
repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:19-20 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Tribulation
is necessary for the decentralization of self and the development of deep
dimensions of agape love, this love can be developed only in the school of
suffering. It grows and develops only by
exercise and testing. This may explain
the relationship between sainthood and suffering by showing why there is no
sainthood without suffering. It may also
show why the greatest saints are often the greatest suffers.” Paul E. Billheimer
“God does not
discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and
blessedness.” Billy
Graham
“The
goal of God’s discipline is restoration – never condemnation.” Anonymous
“God takes one as he is and spends a lifetime fashioning him into His image.” Paul E. Billheimer
“The
entertaining of any worldly lust, and indulgence of any known wilful sin, is an
accursed thing, by which we are deprived of the power of God, and cannot stand
before our enemies. Behold, therefore
the severity of God, and be more earnest.
Make all haste to flee from the lust of the world, especially from the
lust of the eye, which is the love of money.
Examine thyself closely in other things, and whatever sinful lust
harbors in thy breast, be faithful to put it off, and flee from it, else you
must not wonder at your being so weak in spirit. He that does not resist the sinful motions of
his heart, will very easily give a loose to his hands and tongue; but he that
immediately subdues the inward corruptions, will certainly be preserved from
their breaking out in any sinful actions.
O Lord, deliver me from all accursed things, and keep my heart always
under thy closest inspection and discipline.
Amen.”
K. H. Von Bogatzky
“Every
step on the pathway of spiritual progress will be marked by the bloody
footprints of wounded self-love. All along
the course of spiritual advancement, one will have to set up altars upon which
even the legitimate self-life will have to be sacrificed.” Alexander Maclaren
“Every
affliction comes with a message from the heart of God.” Alexander Maclaren
HEART
SAVOR
- · God disciplines those He loves and punishes everyone He accepts as a son. I do not want to waste my sorrow rather benefit from it. Every conflict, every trial is an opportunity to grow like Christ or not.
- · God’s discipline is for my good - always.
- · God disciplines to restore and not condemn.
