When life knocks us down or we fall down, we have a decision to make.  We can view hardships and trials as opportunities for growth or we can reject them as something destructive. One requires grace and faith, the other judgment and fear.  

While discipline is not pleasurable, it is also not always punishment.  Punishment has to do with the infliction of a penalty for an offense, but discipline produces some things within us – things like wisdom, strength, resilience, and endurance. Punishment has to do with retribution but discipline is generative and restorative.  

Now, to be clear, the process is rarely pleasant, but it is productive!  Hang in there! Hold on!  God is working some things out in us!

¹¹  My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,¹²  for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.  

Proverbs 3:11-12

God disciplines God’s children, because God loves us and wants to produce something in us that affirms us and brings glory to God’s name! 

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam