"I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking the blow (The Lord Who Smites)." Ezekiel 7:9
The LORD is not just a God of Love and Grace. When we first get saved and commit our lives to Him then he begins to shape us and change is into the Likeness of His Son. This He does by His Word and by the pressing circumstances of our lives. Do you know that God is disciplining you when you go through trials.
Heb 1210 For they (our fathers) verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
But he for our profit (ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον)
The contrast is with what is implied in as seemed good to them. The human parent may not have dealt with us to our profit. Συμφέρειν means to bring together: to collect or contribute in order to help: hence, to help or be profitable. Often impersonally, συμφέρει it is expedient, as Matthew 5:29; Matthew 18:6; John 11:50. The neuter participle, as here, advantage, profit, 1 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 12:1. There is a backward reference to live,Hebrews 12:9, the result of subjection to the Father of spirits; and this is expanded and defined in the final clause, namely:
That we might be partakers of his holiness (εἰς το μεταλαβεῖν τῆς ἁγιότητος αὐτοῦ)
Lit. unto the partaking of his holiness. Ἑις marks the final purpose of chastening. Holiness is life. Shall we not be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For, in contrast with the temporary, faultful chastening of the human parent, which, at best, prepares for work and success in time and in worldly things, his chastening results in holiness and eternal life. VWS
New International Version (©1984)
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12 :11
The big misunderstanding here is when people think that God's punishment is just to get back at us for our sin (revenge). Ultimately, Jehovah Makkeh is all about grace. God created us to know Him, walk with Him, delight in Him... and He knows that unless we turn from the sin that separates us from Him, we will not experience true life in its fullest.
He disciplines so that we have a chance to receive healing. He disciplines so that our pride doesn't destroy us. He disciplines so that our addiction doesn't overcome us. He disciplines so that we will stay on the path of LIFE. P. Santos.
The Word “DISCIPLINE”or "Chastening" the Bible means:
1. Training for obedience, whether physical, mental, or moral.
2. (n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
3. (n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
4. (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
5. (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
6. (n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
7. (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offences; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
Applications.
1. Remember God is shaping your life into something very beautiful. It will take time and often it will , but it will not harm you.
2. JEHOVAH MAKKEH is the One who is you like a football or tennis coach. Sometimes He takes us through difficult things to shape our thinking and our lives. He plans for Holiness. Separation from the world, the flesh (sinful nature) and the Devil.
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