Job 4-7: Don’t Despise Chastening
Why? Because it’s planned, personalized, and limited by my Father, the One who is also ready to heal, bind up, deliver, redeem, rescue, hide, and provide for me. Since I’ve been chastened, I cannot despise others’ chastenings. In fact, rather than taking their questionings so seriously that I argue with them, I can remember the rash things I have thought when I was suffering, and turn their attention to God’s compassion and trustworthiness instead.
An excellent point, that.
Of course, that’s not to say that all suffering is God’s chastening; sometimes it is not. For instance, Job’s suffering was not due to his being chastised for something he had done.
Still, it is a good thing to remember, since sometimes it *is* a chastisement.
Elisabeth, it seems that your recent posts have been very timely for me. I needed this…
Thank you, and God bless you.