A Reflection On Discipline

When I need to see the Lord’s love in His correction

We give no correction to strangers. Why? It’s not our place to do so; there’s no relationship there. We can take comfort, then, in the fact that God disciplines us. It implies that He loves us as children and is intent on our becoming more like Him. He does not discipline those He has given up on. He disciplines those He treasures.

Are you going through a hard thing today? It may be discipline from the Lord to urge you to change something in your life, or to help you develop greater endurance and character. Regardless of its specific cause, it is designed to shape you into His image, and it is monitored with great care—even delight—by the hand from which it comes. You would not be going through it if He did not care. You would not be in the painful process of conforming to His likeness if you were not His child. Cooperate with His work, no matter how uncomfortable His tools are. He does not use them recklessly. He uses them as lovingly as a father touches his child.

The LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:12