Trained By Painful Chastening

There is a hidden truth from most new version believers that because they have not known it, has caused many to fall away from the faith. This is the principle of the loving chastening of the Lord for his own beloved. We somehow don't understand or want to understand sometimes that there must be a change in us as believers to reflect holiness, and this reflection is brought about through violent friction,as in polishing a stone to bring out it's glory. We may glory in the Lord through our productive suffering, once we understand it is only a temporary phase we must go through as believers and is not a permanent position. If you are moving with God as a Christian, you will be trained by the Holy Spirit. Rejoice in these light afflictions as it will bring out the shining pearl of grace in our lives. We must not quit, we must not turn away from the heat, but courageously face our trials head on. The balance is we must not be lazy Christians laying down when adversity comes, but facing it head-on and walking in faith clinging to the promises of our Heavenly Father and trusting in His word to bring us through the fiery trials as He has always and always will care for His own. Do not wallow in the place of darkness in your life, but seek to bring the light into it. An embracing of the correction of God is not an acceptance of a defeated life,but rather it is a patient endurance of faith. A Christian should never be in a state of hopelessness, we have One that has died to give us hope, not only hope, but grace and life. Don't we know the Lord is preparing us for such a time as this, the glorious harvest of righteousness upon the earth. Thanks be unto our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We find in Hebrews this principle of loving correction, please take time to read it meditatively. Endure my beloved, these times of judgment is a time of rejoicing for believers for we shall see our Lord soon, Maranatha.

Hebrews 12

The Race of Faith

 ¹ Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Discipline of God

  
³ For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:


       “ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
      Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
       ⁶ For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
      And scourges every son whom He receives.”

⁷ If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.