Proclamation:
“Blessed is the one You discipline, Lord,
the one You teach from Your law; You grant them relief from days of trouble, till
a pit is dug for the wicked.” Psalm
94:12-13 (NIV)
Explanation:
The words of this psalm were written under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God by King David concerning the
persecution of the church. This psalm is
a call to God to intervene in His righteousness against the wicked who are
causing His people to suffer. However,
these two verses address God’s punishment of His own people. The Lord chastises His people out of love,
for the benefit of the individual that he might learn, change, and not be
condemned with the world. The
chastisement of The Lord are tokens of His love and evidence of a man’s being
an adopted child of God.
Application:
A parent who loves a child punishes that
child in order to change his bad behavior so that the child will learn to do
the right thing in the future. So does
The Lord God punish His children out of love in order to teach them to obey The
Word of God. The result of the
instruction of God is to change our sinful behavior. The lessons are sometimes painful but The
Lord needs to get our attention because we seem insistent upon doing things our
way and not His way. In the end, His
chastisement will lead to our benefit and we will be blessed because of
it. Therefore, we ought to thank The
Lord for teaching us to walk His way.
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