Psalm 94:12 How blessed the man you train, God, the woman you instruct in your word, providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil..."
There are times when we are caught up in sin and experience the pain of this world so very deeply. Through this trauma we are exposed to a loving God, a God who exposes himself to us at just the right time. Perhaps the prayer of a believer touched our ears and penetrated our hearts. We became willing to not only to listen, but to hear.
"Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction." Isaiah 48:10
God not only makes affliction the occasion of converting sinners at first, but increases that good work of grace. When grace is accepted lives change. To be disciplined by God is to be loved by God. Just as a parent corrects us to teach and to insure our safety, so God disciplines us to bring us closer to him.
Picture this, a child, having been made aware of his wrong-doing, being drawn into the loving arms of his parent. There is no animosity, only tender love express in the embracing arms.
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