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God's discipline

It says "In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood" (Heb 12:4). It is so amazing that for the first time I look at this passage of discipline in a different light.

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

So the question needs to be: if our endurance of hardships, considered the Lord's discipline (which is out of love for us), is compared to the hardships Christ endured on the cross then...
Why do I always complain when hardships come my way and act as if He didn't exist? I always seem to look down and depressed and yet and filled with gratitude everytime I think of what Jesus Christ has done for me on the cross. Forgetting that's the very reason I need to fix my eyes on Jesus, not just to rid myself of sin, but to take on the very attitude he had towards hardships in his life.

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

May God strengthen me to have spiritual eyes to understanding the purpose of his discipline and rebuke in my life.

Amen

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