THE DISCIPLINE OF GOD

If for some reason you wander off course as you go through life, be assured that the God who loves you will do anything to bring you back on track. He will do this because he loves you. God does not want you to be happy when you are going the wrong way. He will, rather, want you to feel the emptiness and grief of your choice. God will want you to feel the consequences of your misdirected life to whatever extent your life is misdirected. He will dash all the false hopes that are leading you astray and he will drain the joy out of the things that you pursue. He will cause you to rise-up and lie-down with a deep and painful emptiness in your heart. He will turn all your gold into stone and make all your wells bitter. It is a wonderful thing that God should do this. It is an expression of his love that he should shepherd us back to him at all costs. If God should not do these things, if he should leave you to enjoy your waywardness, then you would be the most miserable person in the world. This would be a terrible fate. There are people in the world who can live happily without God. If you know someone like this perhaps you can pray for them, that they would feel the reality of their situation. For it is a terrible thing to be happy without God. I encourage you also to ask God that he would always enable you to feel the reality of your situation.

Pray as I have suggested.

Read Hebrews 12:4-13

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