May 15, 2025
Hebrews 12:5-8 (TPT) says “And have you forgotten his encouraging words spoken to you as his children? He said, “My child don’t underestimate the value of the discipline and training of the Lord God, or get depressed when he has to correct you. For the Lord’s training of your life is the evidence of his faithful love. And when he draws you to himself, it proves you are his delightful child.” Fully embrace God’s correction as part of your training for he is doing what a loving father does for his children. For who has ever heard of a child who never had to be corrected? We all should welcome God’s discipline as the validation of all authentic sonship. For if we have never once endured his correction it only proves we are strangers and not sons.”
Don’t beat yourself up when you have to be corrected and don’t take on a spirit of rejection or offense. We aren’t expected to be perfect or to know everything. In fact, that is the beauty of our Father in Heaven who is perfect and knows all things. We rely on him and turn to him for the things we need or have yet to master. But to see this perspective… that to not be corrected, is to not be a son or a daughter but a stranger to him. Lord, let us be convicted and corrected as your children, sons and daughters, and not just strangers that wonder around aimlessly that are unable to see our faults and blaming others for all things.
Hebrews 12:10-11 says, “But God corrects us throughout our lives for our own good, giving us an invitation to share his holiness. Now all discipline seems to be painful at the time, yet later it will produce a transformation of character bringing a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who yield to it. So be made strong even in your weakness by lifting up your tired hands in prayer and worship and strengthen your weak knees, for as you keep walking forward on God’s paths all your stumbling ways will be divinely healed.”