I have read somewhere that the rod was engraved with the family name and represented the authority of the entire family line. It was the idea of disappointing or shaming the family that held the discipline. As I read this scripture, usually my mind goes to the physical discipline of a child, today I had... Continue Reading →
We are saved by grace, not by works. My pastor recently made a comment that just really drove home this scripture. He said "Faith makes possible what grace makes available." Everything that we need is available through the grace of God in Christ Jesus. But the works of our faith appropriate what Christ died for... Continue Reading →
I remember the night I took this picture. My granddaughter had intentionally disobeyed papa. The discipline wasn't physically painful, but it sure was on my heart as she would turn and look at me with pleading, tear filled eyes. She thought the world had ended when she was told by papa to get in the... Continue Reading →
Discipline is both a verb and a noun. Parents discipline their children. Children learn good discipline. Our Heavenly Father disciplines us, but it is up to us to submit to the discipline. Submitting to discipline means that we learn a lesson from the discipline that God gives us. We often try to circumvent this process. This... Continue Reading →
As I read this scripture I immediately thought "the writer certainly never saw the 20th century parenting in America. There are so many children who live without discipline. Parents are busy being the friends of their children, or busy with their own lives instead of being the parent. Society has said it is not okay to... Continue Reading →
As children we often look at discipline as anything but love. We see it as a negative punishment forced on us for disobedience. Whether it is having something taken away or a physical punishment, we think it is done in torture or pure hatred for our individual freedom and self-expression. In the spiritual, God disciplines... Continue Reading →
I wish that I could say I was a runner in the natural, far from it. I don't have endurance to go more than a few meters. I never learned the discipline involved with physically running. In the spiritual though, I know what it means to run with endurance the race God set before me. ... Continue Reading →
Above all the disciplines, seeking God is the most beneficial thing that we can do in life. There is nothing to be found outside of Him, and everything to be found in Him. It is easy to be distracted by the things in the life. We get distracted by all that we have to do... Continue Reading →
As we build our faith, we must be disciplined to add to our faith virtue. Virtue is behavior showing high moral standards. See, it's not enough to just believe, our actions must turn into behaviors. God accepts us where we are in faith, but then He helps us to grow into the unique person that we... Continue Reading →
Staying disciplined in faith can be the most difficult walk for a Christian. By pure virtue of having to believe in something that you can't see, regardless of what is going on in the circumstances you can see. Having stood in faith for over fifteen years for the same promise, I know what it is... Continue Reading →
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