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In fact, if God did not discipline us then that would be a sign that we are not actually children of God, that He is not our Father. So instead of seeing the hardship as a sign that God does not actually love us, we should see it as the exact opposite. We are “legitimate” children of God. At the start of John’s gospel he says that all who believed in Christ were given the right to become children of God (John 1:12).
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Good human fathers discipline their children. This will be imperfect, for we all make mistakes, but we know that not to discipline a child is a recipe for disaster. So if we, frail and flawed as we are, do this, how much more should we expect God to discipline us? We come to Christ because we need to change, the way we are just won’t do, we are sinners. So we need to be forgiven for our sins, and we need to be transformed.
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