Been Spanked Lately?

TOPIC: Discipline

SCRIPTURE: "Those whom I love, I reprove, and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent." (Rev. 3:19)

OBSERVATION: God's primary focus in discipline is NOT to punish BUT to bring his children back to intimate fellowship.

APPLICATION: In the same way and for the same reason (hopefully)parents discipline their kids our Heavenly Father disciplines us.

Know this

Our Heavenly Father
Always Disciplines from a heart of LOVE

BUT

know this also

HE DOES DISCIPLINE

Have you been spanked lately by your Heavenly Father?
If yes

Be glad in this respect
It is evidence that you are a child of the KING

Along with being glad about that fact

Don't forget
to
repent


IF you've never been disciplined
by God the Father
for doing wrong

THEN

You might out to do some soul searching
BECAUSE
It's a very good possibility
That you do not have a relationship with Him

PRAYER: Father God, thank you for loving me the way you do. Thank you for the way you discipline. Help me to follow your example when it comes to my children.