The Bible teaches us that
discipline is something that a loving father does. As parents, we recognize
this. When we discipline our children, whether with corrective teaching or the
sin squashing swats of the spanking spoon, we know that we are showing them
love and teaching them a path that will lead them to peace and joy.
As adults, we often fail to see this. When loving friends
confront us, we resist and justify. If we persist in this resistance, our
hearts grow hard to correction and a hard stubborn heart is not a receptive
place for God’s Spirit.
Thus,
the Lord, Himself, will bring direct correction into our lives. Sometimes, it
is just enough to get our attention so that we straighten up. If we continue to
resist Him then we run the risk of having Him let us run headlong into our sin.
The rebellious heart loves this, thinking it is freedom but the righteous man
fears the withdrawing of God’s Spirit of conviction and correction, knowing
that this leads to slavery to sin.
So, we need to come to the Lord humbly, heeding His voice in
friends, the elders, the pastor, and His Spirit, so that we are easily
corrected and do not justify ourselves in our sins.
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