In our culture, which no longer recognizes any difference between discipline and abuse, the message of Proverbs 3:11-12 is radical, and indeed hateful to many. The passage tells us that God inflicts suffering on His children, not as punishment to satisfy His justice, but rather as discipline or chastening, to benefit us and make us into the kind of people we ought to be. God had one Son without sin but He has no sons without suffering! And so, as our passage makes abundantly clear, God's chastening is for sons. It is a basic fatherly action, and submitting to it is the basic work of a son. And you simply must work with it, rather than against it. Don't resist it. Don't reject it. Submit to it, for it is a mark of His love — and until you learn the discipline of one of God's sons, you can't conquer sin.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
