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S A Yes, if God should give punishment and stripes, it ought to be a matter of thankfulness; because He always does so for our welfare, whatever He permits to happen to us. (CIoC) God likes to take “the lemons in our lives” and make lemonade yet sometimes He does need to discipline us because He loves us and He knows more about us than we know about ourselves and He wants the best for us. Contemplate on how Jesus handled Peter when he cut off the guard’s ear at His arrest and His reconciliation with Peter. What can you learn from Peter’s experience that will help you in your life now? You can discover this story in the biographies of Christ written by Sa...
So let’s make it our chief endeavor to meditate upon the life of Jesus Christ so that we can see what He wants us to see, and be who He wants us to be, knowing that He will never give us more than we can handle and knowing that we will never know as much as He knows and knowing that we will never be perfect as He is perfect yet delighting in the idea that He loves us so much that He wants an intimate relationship with us.
ReplyDeleteAnd as we get to know Him as a real person and value who He really is we are sure to delight in such a personal God that we will begin to naturally be more like Him.