GMFBF CONTINUING THE SUBJECT OF THE NEED FOR CORRECTION AND INSTRUCTION. HEBREWS 12:9. LETS SEE THE HANDS OF ALL THOSE WHO LOOK FORWARD TO CORRECTION AND ADVERSITY IN THEIR LIVES? ...Hmmm.. Surely, no one thinks they are doing everything right! If you were on the wrong path would you want to receive correction? Yes some of us dont like to ask for directions. But, how long will you go in the wrong direction before you accept directions/correction? Thank God for GPS! TRUE FACT!... AT ONE TIME THERE WAS MUCH CONTROVERSY IN THIS COUNTRY ABOUT RAISING CATTLE AND SHEEP TOGETHER ON THE SAME LAND. RANGE WARS WERE CARRIED ON OVER THE RIGHTS OF FREE GRAZERS (CATTLEMEN) AND SHEEP HERDERS/HOMESTEADERS. IT SEEMED AS THOUGH NO ONE WANTED TO GIVE WAY OR COMPROMISE ON THE ISSUE. THIS ISSUE WE KNOW NOW STOOD IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS, BUT NONE COULD SEE IT AT THE TIME. BOTH CATTLEMEN AND SHEEP HERDERS SUFFERED AS RESULT OF THIS PROBLEM. WHY? THE NEED FOR ALL THAT SUFFERING? QUESTION: DOES GOD HAVE A REASON FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES? HOW FAR IS GOD WILLING TO GO. HOW MUCH PAIN IS HE WILLING TO INFLICT? IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE ADVERSITY HE MIGHT SEND? HE BLINDED PAUL. HE BROUGHT JONAH WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE. I THINK THE ANSWER IS THAT GOD WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES. AS MUCH AS HE MUST HATE PAIN, HE HATES SIN THAT MUCH WORSE. AS MUCH AS HE MUST DESPISE SUFFERING, HE LOVES US THAT MUCH MORE. FOR THOSE WHO ARE RELUCTANT TO HEED HIS WARNINGS OF DISCIPLINE, THERE IS ANOTHER PIECE OF ADVICE, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM. WHEN WE ARE BEING DISCIPLINED WE SOMETIMES BECOME DISCOURAGED AND BECOME SUBJECT TO SUGGESTIONS BY OTHERS THAT CAST DOUBT ON THE GOODNESS AND JUSTICE OF GOD. IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL, WE WILL INTERPRET GODS DISCIPLINE FOR THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT REALLY IS. SMALL THOUGHT HERE: GOD TREATS US AS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. INSTEAD OF EXPECTING DISCIPLINE FROM OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE ARE SURPRISED. WE MISUNDERSTAND THIS ACT OF SUPREME LOVE. WE VIEW AS A THREAT WHAT WAS INTENDED FOR OUR GOOD. BUT IN REALITY, THE DISCIPLINE OF GOD IS A SIGN OF OWNERSHIP. IT SERVES AS THE GUARANTEE OF OUR FATHER CHILD RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. LISTEN.. HEBREWS 12:9-10 FURTHERMORE, WE HAD EARTHLY FATHERS TO DISCIPLINE US, AND WE RESPECTED THEM; SHALL WE NOT MUCH RATHER BE SUBJECT TO THE FATHER OF SPIRITS, AND LIVE? FOR THEY DISCIPLINED US FOR A SHORT TIME AS SEEMED BEST TO THEM, BUT HE DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD, THAT WE MAY SHARE HIS HOLINESS. GOD IS GOOD AND WORTHY TO BE PRAISED. HE KNOWS THAT UNLESS HE DISCIPLINES US, CHANCES ARE THAT WE WILL ALLOW SIN TO RUN ITS DESTRUCTIVE COURSE. GOD WILL NOT SIT BACK AND WATCH OUR LIVES BE DESTROYED, SO HE INTERVENES WITH DISCIPLINE. THANKS BE TO GOD! PRAY FOR THE NATIONS! ~KAPOW!
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:44:13 +0000
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