Hearty Love

[netchaplain]

The believer is never in trouble with God! Everything he goes through is for learning, and never punishment; “For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth” (Heb 12:6). Chastening out of love is God’s way, and not out of man’s anger, for they “chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness” (Heb 12:10).

There is now a new way of everything, especially a permanent “desire” only for God’s “good pleasure” (Phl 2:13). This means you will ever be after pleasing God more than anything, thus you will be learning His will concerning everything (2Ti 2:7). Our “old man” continues to distract us (Ro 7:17, 20), but God guides and enables us, through His Word, to learn how to respond to whatever we encounter (give it time). After all, there’s nothing that can happen unto you that He doesn’t “work together” for your “good” (Ro 8:28); and this isn’t dependent upon how you feel or what you think about it—because it’s His love for His Son and those who are His that He unfailingly directs.

Now that “He made us accepted in the Beloved” (Eph 1:6), we are treated as a child loved by the Father, and having a “new man” or new nature, He knows our primary desire is His will. The sin is now unintended and impulsive, instead of on purpose and “presumptuous” (Num 15:30; Heb 10:26). Even when we’re angry for the wrong reason, He always brings us to the right mind—His mind—about everything. Of course He would—as a Father who loves His child! Not to punish, but just to teach.

There will never be a time where God frowns on you, because He knows that in everything you’re doing, you’re trying to please Him and give Him joy. This is what counts and is what He takes to heart. In all this, it is most comforting to know that we know God knows this!
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[for_his_glory]

Our hearts desire is to please God, but like our natural father that disciplines his child with love, so be our Father in heaven when we get out of line at times. Someday we will have that uncorrectable glorified body that will no longer fall short at times.

 

[netchaplain]

Our hearts desire is to please God, but like our natural father that disciplines his child with love, so be our Father in heaven when we get out of line at times. Someday we will have that uncorrectable glorified body that will no longer fall short at times.

Yes, often correction can be proper, but many parents do it out of anger (being without God): Albert Banes - "We submitted to our earthly parents, though their correction was sometimes passionate, and was designed to gratify their own pleasure rather than to promote our good. There is much of this kind of punishment in families; but there is none of it under the administration of God."

John Gill - "After their own pleasure: not to please and delight themselves in the pains and cries of their children, which would be brutish and inhuman; though corrections are too often given to gratify the passions; nor merely in an arbitrary way, and when they please; but the sense is, they correct as seems good unto them; in the best way and manner; to the best of their judgments, which are fallible" (us being sinners).

 

[for_his_glory]

I will always remember the difference between my mom and dad as my dad would beat us with his belt relentlessly which was abuse, even when we didn't do anything, but he thought we did, but my mother used a little red pingball paddle when we were bad and we did deserve that paddling that corrected us.

 

[netchaplain]

I will always remember the difference between my mom and dad as my dad would beat us with his belt relentlessly which was abuse, even when we didn't do anything, but he thought we did, but my mother used a little red pingball paddle when we were bad and we did deserve that paddling that corrected us.

Right! Thanks for your site labors, and God bless!

 

[jaybo]

Yes, often correction can be proper, but many parents do it out of anger (being without God): Albert Banes - "We submitted to our earthly parents, though their correction was sometimes passionate, and was designed to gratify their own pleasure rather than to promote our good. There is much of this kind of punishment in families; but there is none of it under the administration of God."

John Gill - "After their own pleasure: not to please and delight themselves in the pains and cries of their children, which would be brutish and inhuman; though corrections are too often given to gratify the passions; nor merely in an arbitrary way, and when they please; but the sense is, they correct as seems good unto them; in the best way and manner; to the best of their judgments, which are fallible" (us being sinners).

And many parents discipline their children to teach them their behavior is wrong. It doesn't matter what Albert Barnes and John Gill say, it is what God says and does that is important.

 

[netchaplain]

And many parents discipline their children to teach them their behavior is wrong. It doesn't matter what Albert Barnes and John Gill say, it is what God says and does that is important.

Yes, there are parents that properly chastise their children, and for the right reason and not out of wrath, but love. But they "correct as seems good unto them; in the best way and manner; to the best of their judgments, which are fallible" -J Gill.

The idea is that "We submitted to our earthly parents, though their correction was sometimes passionate, and was designed to gratify their own pleasure rather than to promote our good. There is much of this kind of punishment in families; but there is none of it under the administration of God." -A Barnes