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Proverbs 3:12
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This father is not going to be bothered to correct the boy who works in the neighbour's smallholding. It is not his task and his duty to correct every boy in the vicinity; it is his own boy he is concerned with. He corrects this one because he is his child who he loves, his heir, his successor, the one for whom he is responsible, the one he cares for. Yes, the Christian life involves discipline. It involves much correction and obeying the Lord but God reprovesus and guides us and deals with us in our lives because we are his children. There is so much joy and happiness and blessing in the Christian life but be very careful about the reproofs and the duties and the moments when your conscience troubles you and the word convicts you and you know there are things that need to be put right. Because if you despise God's kindly training of you, then you leave him no alternative but to crack down upon you with a harder discipline.
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If there is in your Christian life this frequent moving of conscience, this loss of peace, this realisation that you are wrong, this reproof sometimes from friends, from fellow church members; if these things go on, then in a way you have reason to rejoice. Put those things right but rejoice: God is dealing with you. The time to fear is when you realise you don't have any experience of this. But if this is all double-Dutch to you: ‘God correcting me? Feeling bad about this, feeling reproved about that sometimes? Oh, I believe I am a Christian and ever since I came to Christ 20 years ago I have been happy, happy, happy.’ Well, that is almost a sure proof that you are unconverted, you haven't got a loving heavenly Father dealing with you.
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