{"id":8470,"date":"2025-09-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2015-08-19T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T06:31:07","slug":"suffering-method-discipline-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/suffering-method-discipline-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering as a method of discipline II"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe have been granted another day as a blessing from the Lord. I believe that His grace and help is sufficient for all of us this day.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nYesterday we began talking about how God corrects us and helps us see the truth through suffering. We talked about Jonah who discovered the condition of his heart only after having to suffer because of his disobedience. It was grief and suffering that opened Jonah\u2019s eyes to the fact that he had backslidden from the Lord. When he ended up in the belly of a fish, he could have perished, but God is not interested in the destruction of a sinner; rather He is interested in his salvation. God is interested in the repentance of His children and for this reason He uses various methods, including pain and suffering; by them He disciplines us.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMy responsibility is to live a worthy life and to walk in obedience before the Lord. If I become disobedient, then according to the Bible my Heavenly Father corrects and disciplines me. To discipline is to correct for moral perfection. That is why the Bible says:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent\u00bb\u00a0(Revelation, 3:19).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
\u00ab\u201dFor whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.\u201d If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 12:6-8)<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nJust like any responsible father on the earth disciplines his children when he sees their disobedience, our Heavenly Father also disciplines us \u2013 His children. It says in First Corinthians:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abFor if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world\u00bb(1 Corinthians, 11:31-32).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will be able to avoid God\u2019s judgement if we WILL JUDGE OURSELVES and not ignore our sins, thus forcing God to judge us. Apostle John said to Christians:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abIf we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all righteousness\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0(1 John, 1:9).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nMy Christian duty is to make maximum effort to accept from God the power for sinless living. If it happens that I sin, I have to repent and CONFESS my sin before the Lord. If I do not want to do that, then I am an undisciplined child and my Heavenly Father will chasten and correct me. As sad as it sounds, but it is true that many Christians go through tragedies and grief in their lives because they refuse to confess their sins before God and repent of them.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRemember how often your parents disciplined you, when you were children and took the things you were not supposed to take! And surely at the moments like that you as a child were begging your parents to change their mind about disciplining you and to give you what you wanted. They usually said \u2018no\u2019. When Mom and Dad said \u2018no\u2019, it did not lessen your desire to have whatever you wanted isn\u2019t it? Quite often when they weren\u2019t around you took and did what was forbidden. What happened when you were caught? You got disciplined for your disobedience.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Bible says both in the Old and New Testaments that God disciplines His children. I am not saying that God is the source of our tragedies. Yet it is important to understand that God can discipline us by allowing pain and sufferings in our lives if we open the door for it through disobedience.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMay God abundantly bless you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My responsibility is to live a worthy life and to walk in obedience before the Lord. If I become disobedient, then according to the Bible my Heavenly Father corrects and disciplines me. To discipline is to correct for moral perfection. That is why the Bible says:\r\n\r\n\u00abAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent\u00bb (Revelation, 3:19).","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-photo-1437153-1024x576.jpeg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40157,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/40157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}