{"id":1134,"date":"2018-07-26T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:05:34","slug":"devotion-proverbs-312-two-sides-one-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Proverbs 3:12 Two Sides, One Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Proverbs 3:12\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0because the\u00a0Lord\u00a0disciplines those He loves, as a father the son He delights in.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hebrews 12:6<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201c\u2026because the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone he accepts as his son.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Mercies and Disciplines.\u00a0 Disciplines and mercies.\u00a0 Two sides of the same coin.\u00a0 One coin with two sides but both sides are equally part of the one whole.\u00a0 Both are identified by the same name of the coin.\u00a0 Or perhaps one double woven cloth of white and red.\u00a0 Both colored materials are equally part of the same cloth.\u00a0 Remove either material and the cloth is no longer what it was.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 3:12<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Hebrews 12:6<\/b>\u00a0state that God disciplines those He loves.\u00a0\u00a0Hebrews 12:10-11<\/b>\u00a0informs us that God disciplines us so that we may share in His holiness and God\u2019s discipline will lead us to a harvest of righteousness and peace.\u00a0 So when the Lord disciplines us He does so with purpose.\u00a0 His discipline for His children is not to hurt them out of anger.\u00a0 It is silliness or ignorance of God that would say so. God is not man with man\u2019s petty angers and hurtful retributions.\u00a0 God has loved us and never will stop.\u00a0 God disciplines with purpose.\u00a0 He disciplines with perfect love.\u00a0 God calls us from the filth that is the goodness of humanity (Isaiah 64:6<\/b>) to the splendor of His perfect righteousness.\u00a0 He calls us to a beauty which we on earth can never fully understand.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

When God disciplines us He is being merciful.\u00a0 In God\u2019s discipline is His perfect love for us.\u00a0 A love that seeks to heal and to build and not to harm.\u00a0 It is never God\u2019s plan to harm us, but to continually make us into what ultimately tranforms us into what we were always meant to be.\u00a0 As a great musician blissfully brings forth beautiful that he was born to play, that musician is in rapture.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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\u2019s love and ends in our hearts that He has tuned to be in perfect harmony with His will.\u00a0 To be so is epitome, the paragon of beauty. To be so is to be in perfect peace and perfect harmony.\u00a0 It is all gained through Jesus. So let it be our one endeavor to place our feet in the footsteps of Jesus.\u00a0 Thank You Jesus!\u00a0 Praise and glory to You Jesus!\u00a0 Thank You Jesus!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Proverbs 3:12\u00a0–\u00a0because the\u00a0Lord\u00a0disciplines those He loves, as a father the son He delights in. Hebrews 12:6\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201c\u2026because the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone he accepts as his son.\u201d Mercies and Disciplines.\u00a0 Disciplines and mercies.\u00a0 Two sides of the same coin.\u00a0 One coin with two sides but both sides are equally part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[104,103,94,88,17],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-hebrews","tag-isaiah","tag-micah","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}