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Romans 14:17 talks about "Righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost". I don't know about you but I want to have peace and joy in my life In Christ.
This verse tells me the way to have that is to walk in righteousness, right standing with God which I believe comes from being obedient. But If righteous living doesn’t come naturally, how can we live righteously? God provides resources that give us power to live righteously. These resources begin with Christ and continue in the Holy Spirit.
One important resource is his discipline because He loves us and a father’s love includes discipline.
You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov. 3:11, 12.]
9 Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?
10 For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.
11 For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness—in conformity to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God].
Heb 12:7–11
Discipline is correction designed to yield the “peaceful fruit of righteousness”. God disciplines His people by allowing them to experience the consequence of insisting upon their own way. When Israel disobeyed, God “gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices” Psalm 81:11–12.
This verse tells me the way to have that is to walk in righteousness, right standing with God which I believe comes from being obedient. But If righteous living doesn’t come naturally, how can we live righteously? God provides resources that give us power to live righteously. These resources begin with Christ and continue in the Holy Spirit.
One important resource is his discipline because He loves us and a father’s love includes discipline.
You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov. 3:11, 12.]
9 Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?
10 For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.
11 For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness—in conformity to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God].
Heb 12:7–11
Discipline is correction designed to yield the “peaceful fruit of righteousness”. God disciplines His people by allowing them to experience the consequence of insisting upon their own way. When Israel disobeyed, God “gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices” Psalm 81:11–12.
