4.2- Discipline means different things to at different ages.

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 4.2-

Discipline means different things to at different ages.
As a child for me I got a belt to the bottom. At times we gave our children a sit in the corner and be quiet order until you have control.
Later we learn it is something of an intense learning time. We learn from suffering. A boot camp of sorts. Ideally, we feel honored to be loved by God to engage us in this unique process.
So we are armed with purpose during this phase of our lives and have no time for distractive nonsense. Joy is on the other side of the phase. Joy in it with proper reflection and thought. Sitting in a corner does not mean I am not loved by my parents but that indeed I have parents that love me as I am, but too much to leave me as I am.

Hebrews 12.

12 Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking only at Jesus, the [a]originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary [b]and lose heart.

A Father’s Discipline

4 You have not yet resisted [c]to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are punished by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had [d]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of [e]spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

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