12:10
Human fathers discipline children trying to develop them. We do it highly imperfectly. God is the perfect Father, and everything He does is for our good. And the purpose is that “we may share in His holiness”. God wants to share so much of Himself with us. All man-centred religions or man-centred approaches to the gospel (which are doomed to failure) are highly impoverished, they offer so much less than the gospel does, and what they do offer, they will fail to deliver. In the end they will only deliver poison.
12:11
Discipline is not enjoyable. At the time of enduring it it is painful. However, the long term fruit from it is a “harvest of peace and righteousness”. “For those who have been trained by it”. Discipline is a two way process. God delivers the discipline, but we need to learn from it. If we react with bitterness or resentment, then we will get nowhere. If we submit to it then we can receive the harvest that God intends.
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