"Do not forget the comforting words that Wisdom addresses to you as children: My son, pay attention when the LORD corrects you and do not be discouraged when HE punishes you. For the LORD corrects those HE loves and chastises everyone HE accepts as a son.
What you endure, is in order to correct you. GOD treats you like sons, and what son is not corrected by his father? If you were without correction, which has been received by all, [as is fitting for sons], you would not be sons, but bastards. Besides, when our parents, according to the flesh, corrected us, we respected them. How much more should we be subject to the FATHER of spirits, to have life? Our parents corrected us as they saw fit, with a view to this very short life; but GOD corrects us, for our own good, that we may share HIS holiness.
All correction is painful at the moment, rather than pleasant; later, it brings the fruit of peace, that is, holiness, to those who have been trained by it.
Lift up, then, your drooping hands, and strengthen your trembling knees; make level the ways for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but healed." - Hebrews 12:5-13
(The FATHER of spirits. In Numbers 16:22, Moses begs the GOD of the spirits of all humankind: it is as way of saying that, since GOD knows the inner core of all people, HE knows their misery and HE will not punish them severely.)
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