Proverbs 3:12 – because the Lord disciplines those He loves, as a father the son He delights in.
Hebrews 12:6 – “…because the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
Mercies and Disciplines. Disciplines and mercies. Two sides of the same coin. One coin with two sides but both sides are equally part of the one whole. Both are identified by the same name of the coin. Or perhaps one double woven cloth of white and red. Both colored materials are equally part of the same cloth. Remove either material and the cloth is no longer what it was.
Proverbs 3:12 and Hebrews 12:6 state that God disciplines those He loves. Hebrews 12:10-11 informs us that God disciplines us so that we may share in His holiness and God’s discipline will lead us to a harvest of righteousness and peace. So when the Lord disciplines us He does so with purpose. His discipline for His children is not to hurt them out of anger. It is silliness or ignorance of God that would say so. God is not man with man’s petty angers and hurtful retributions. God has loved us and never will stop. God disciplines with purpose. He disciplines with perfect love. God calls us from the filth that is the goodness of humanity (Isaiah 64:6) to the splendor of His perfect righteousness. He calls us to a beauty which we on earth can never fully understand. He calls us to a joy and a peace that floods the soul, the very root of us, in ways we can only understand that it is, without fully grasping how it is.
When God disciplines us He is being merciful. In God’s discipline is His perfect love for us. A love that seeks to heal and to build and not to harm. It is never God’s plan to harm us, but to continually make us into what ultimately tranforms us into what we were always meant to be. As a great musician blissfully brings forth beautiful that he was born to play, that musician is in rapture. It is wonderful to do, and to be, what you were meant to be and meant to do. So God, who knows us perfectly, much better than we know ourselves, is constantly bringing us to be what we were meant to be. In that, led by music conceived in the mind of God and infused into the essence of our very beings, we begin to bring forth the beauty and oneness of our lives as God had created us to be and has crafted us to a heavenly perfection. Moved and guided by God through finely tuned ears and willing hearts and minds, we are in perfect joy, the perfect joy that begins with God’s love and ends in our hearts that He has tuned to be in perfect harmony with His will. To be so is epitome, the paragon of beauty. To be so is to be in perfect peace and perfect harmony. It is all gained through Jesus. So let it be our one endeavor to place our feet in the footsteps of Jesus. Thank You Jesus! Praise and glory to You Jesus! Thank You Jesus!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.