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 →
As a Christian, it is our responsibility to be fruitful. It takes much discipline of self to abide with God so that we can produce the fruit that comes naturally through our connection with Him. Unlike natural branches, we have to choose to remain in Him. Our responsibility in the growth of fruit is to... Continue Reading →
31 Days is an online writing challenge started by home blogger, Myquillyn Smith (The Nester), and now hosted by Crystal Stine, where bloggers pick one topic and write a post on that topic every day in October. We all link up just once on day one so that we can see all the topics and read... Continue Reading →
Meditating on that fact that God knows me, I was give the vision of a clock sitting on a mantle. The clock on the mantle tells time. It has a known purpose. I know that it is made of wood, had the white circle, the numbers and the hands that tell time. This has been... Continue Reading →
