O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Psalm 6:1 – We aren’t sure what wrongdoing of David is causing David to feel as if the Lord is discipling him, but what we find in this psalm is a man crying out to the Lord to lessen the lesson the Lord was teaching him. David was feeling crushed by the weight of the discipline, and he found himself troubled to the bone and flooding his bed with tears every night. When we are in the middle of such discipline from the Lord over our sin, we too can find ourselves mirroring the agony of David in this psalm. The discipline can feel overwhelming and over the top, and we too can be calling out to the Lord to lessen the lesson. While such crying out is acceptable to the Lord, let us keep in mind that such discipline is not a sign of God’s hatred for us. In fact we learn in Hebrews that such discipline from the Lord is a mark of our adoption as His children. Hebrew 12:7, “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?” Keep this truth in mind then when we sin and God begins to discipline us for the wrong. He does so not out of hatred, not out of a lack of care for us, but out of love as our Heavenly Father. He longs for us to grow beyond the ways of the world and to be about His holiness instead. Turn then from your sin, and when we find ourselves experiencing the consequences of our sin let us remember that the Lord is allowing such discipline to come to us, His children, as a means to draw our attention and devotion back to Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2961
Question To Ponder: How has discipline in your past helped you see the error of your ways?
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