Have you ever loved somebody just so much - a girl/boyfriend? A child? A doggy?
They screw up all the time - but what do you do?
You forgive and forget - forgive and just drop it and move on.
Why, because love is so much higher than remembering and ruminating.
You just do it naturally bec love is more important.
That's the deal with our Father - He just dismisses it because He wants the loooove, not the wrath.
When we cherish the love and peace more than our egoistic claim to an offense -that's freedom.
:)
Very nicely put in context of girl/boyfriend? A child? A doggy? But its not the whole story, nor is it so simple.
We all desire for children and close friends to mature just as the Father does from us. Its an easy thing to love your children, do you love them so much you never correct or discipline them?
Could you consider such an action love, never chastening?
There comes a time to start walking and growing out of the pampers.
I think that their are a lot of fair weather Christians around today, the test of truth comes when the road gets tough, the Lord prepares and strengthens those He calls sons.
As the proverb says,
For whom the LORD loves He chastens, If you have never experienced this I might question your confession of salvation
. Have you been tested? lost a family member, your income your job? Been made to walk in faith, homeless perhaps? Sent out with out a purse or extra coat and lived by the word, that Lord knows your needs and will provide daily. I doubt it very much.
Proverbs 3
[sup]11[/sup] My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor detest His correction;
[sup]12[/sup] For whom the LORD loves He corrects,
Just as a father the son
in whom he delights.
Hebrews 12
[sup]3[/sup] For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. [sup]4[/sup] You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. [sup]5[/sup] And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
[sup]6[/sup]
For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.
[sup]7[/sup]
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? [sup]8[/sup]
But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. [sup]9[/sup] Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected
us, and we paid
them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? [sup]10[/sup] For they indeed for a few days chastened
us as seemed
best to them, but He for
our profit, that
we may be partakers of His holiness. [sup]11[/sup] Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.