Revelation 3:19 ESV
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
He loves us enough to teach us, to show us the way to life, to guide us into all truth. Our zeal increases as we spend more time in the word and the life of love contained in that word. Life is a trial and test, a furnace of refinement in which we find and learn of God. Finding Him is the most important thing. When we do, we learn that He came for us, for we were lost. We begin to walk in His light.
We belong to Him and are beloved.
Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Hebrews 12:5-8
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
2 Samuel 7:14-15
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
Job 5:17
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
Psalms 94:10-13
He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
He who teaches man knowledge—
11 the Lord —knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and whom you teach out of your law,
13 to give him rest from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Proverbs 15:32-33
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself,
but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
33 The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.
Jeremiah 7:28
And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
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