I sometimes feel like the 4-year-old who lied to me today at school. He said something in play that I would have simply corrected and gone on, but he decided he was going to deny it to my face for several minutes. Finally I got the explanation that I knew to be true, and he got a note to mom and dad. If I would just admit to the small things that I sweep under the rug and accept the simple corrections, then the Lord wouldn't have to discipline me further when He "reads the note."
Lord, let me be transparent for Your glory and for my benefit. Thank you so much for all the discipline You give me, even when I ignorantly choose beyond the simple corrections. In Christ's precious Name. Amen.
The word chasten is translated from the Greek word paideu which means to "to train children; to be instructed or taught or learn."
- Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Hebrews 12:5-7 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
- Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
