How much longer are some of us going to keep God trying to teach us one thing? He never loses patience. – Oswald Chambers 4/15
Ever get in a rut? Ever feel like you’re living the same scene, the same frustration, over and over? Maybe this is why.
“Why does this keep happening?” As if it’s not fair, as if someone is picking on you. As if there’s no connection between your relationship with the Lord and how life looks and feels.
One kind of discipline is like a training where you’re pressured and stressed and exhausted to make you stronger. Another kind of discipline is like a spanking so you’ll shape up.
When you’re a parent, you know which discipline you’re doing with your child. When you’re the child it can be confusing.
he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it – Hebrews 12.10-11
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