2007-05-01 03:25:32 · 5 answers · asked by joejackiejoeyashlyn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The passage is not about discipline. It is about trusting that everything God puts you through is part of his plan. You go through trials are hardship to make you the person that you are.
2007-05-01 03:33:16 · answer #1 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A bit of elaboration can be found in context
7Â It is for discipline YOU are enduring. God is dealing with YOU as with sons. For what son is he that a father does not discipline? 8Â But if YOU are without the discipline of which all have become partakers, YOU are really illegitimate children, and not sons. 9Â Furthermore, we used to have fathers who were of our flesh to discipline us, and we used to give them respect. Shall we not much more subject ourselves to the Father of our spiritual life and live? 10Â For they for a few days used to discipline us according to what seemed good to them, but he does so for our profit that we may partake of his holiness. 11Â True, no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; yet afterward to those who have been trained by it it yields peaceable fruit, namely, righteousness.
12Â Hence straighten up the hands that hang down and the enfeebled knees, 13Â and keep making straight paths for YOUR feet, that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather that it may be healed. 14Â Pursue peace with all people, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, 15Â carefully watching that no one may be deprived of the undeserved kindness of God; that no poisonous root may spring up and cause trouble and that many may not be defiled by it; 16Â that there may be no fornicator nor anyone not appreciating sacred things, like E′sau, who in exchange for one meal gave away his rights as firstborn. 17Â For YOU know that afterward also when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected, for, although he earnestly sought a change of mind with tears, he found no place for it.
2007-05-01 10:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What we learn is that God reproves us because, he loves us, because those that practice sin will die. Remember that God doesn't cause bad things to come upon us, rather he allows them to come back on us.
James 1:12-15
12Â Happy is the man that keeps on enduring trial, because on becoming approved he will receive the crown of life, which Jehovah promised to those who continue loving him. 13Â When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone. 14Â But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. 15Â Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.
2007-05-01 11:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm a fluent hebrew speaker.
give me that passage and i'll translate it to you.
2007-05-01 10:34:31 · answer #4 · answered by pokerface 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
2007-05-01 10:29:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋