Proverbs 3:11-12 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: (12) For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
We are sinners. We are sinners because we are naturally disobedient. Therefore we deserve each and every last stroke of the lash. If we do not know that, we have a serious problem with self-righteousness. What is worse when we don’t realize it is that we project the same spirit to our children. We absolve them the way we want to be absolved; we indulge them the way we want to be indulged, and we excuse them the way we wan t to be excused. The result is that we raise a generation of undisciplined disobedient whining brats that will pass the next laws in our country.
When Our Messiah walked the earth, He lived the life of an afflicted man. The Bible tells us that He was not physically handsome and that He was born in the remote corners of a country subjected to servitude. The prophet Isaiah also tells us that people saw Jesus’ trouble on earth, they thought that God was actually punishing him. The apostle Paul tells us that even the Son learned obedience through the things that He suffered.
Does God judge? Yes He does. How else would He be a just God? Does God discipline? Yes He does. How else would we learn from Him?
Let us remember next time we feel that God is our trail, that His rod of correction is His unbearable compliment that confirms our salvation. It shows the world not that God hates us, but that He loves us, and that He looks at us as His children who He trains and corrects.
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