Unless there are people who are responding to the love of God as revealed in Christ and so are worshipping Him, the Church is not very important. -Blake
Proverbs 3:11-12, My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Discipline from the Lord comes in three ways; Corrective, preventive, and instructive. In either way the goal of the Lord is always the same, correction. It is not just being punished for sin we have been done. He wants us to be corrected and conformed to His image. He wants us to correct and respond to His Word in such a way that we bring Him honor and glory and we grow in grace! So, He corrects us when we are in sin!
In what way do you respond to the Lord’s chastening and correction? It ought to be the way scripture says, ”…it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.“- Hebrews 5:11
