Believers Correction (3)
Even when we do wrong, God's loving correction has good at the end of the plan.
Here are some verses to meditate on and store in your heart so when times of loving correction, admonishing, exhorting, and times where someone points something out to you, that you gratefully embrace it and seek to make any changes to ensure you are walking rightly in the faith in your life.
It is all meant in love and to bless you.
If you view it that way, you will never be offended, and actually be grateful to God and the person He used to reveal it to you. 😊🙏
"No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." Hebrews 12:11
Whether God directly brings it about or even uses others to correct and grow us [too]. We need to be sensitively open for God to work in our life. And be grateful when someone reveals an issue to us, so we can prayerfully honestly look into it and correct ourselves if it is true or has any truth to it.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and judging the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
Galatians 6:1
"Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently.
James 5:19-20
"My dear brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings them back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from their sin will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom
Romans 15:14
"I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and capable of instructing one another
Hebrews 10:24
"And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing."
Of we heed this we continue on the righteous path, grow and mature more and more, and also avoid God's discipline (both by church discipline and by God's stronger more serious discipline that can bring illness or even death). If we love Jesus we want to live rightly and conform to His image and God's Will.
Some of this work takes place in our hearts through private time in Scripture and also in prayer. They go hand in hand.
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Footnotes:
Be cautious in being the one correcting, exhorting or adminishing someone. E Prayerful before you do it, think through how you will bring it up and discuss it. But also know the person might be new or weak in the faith and not recieve it well. But also make sure you are free from that same sin or problem that needs correction or it might look bad for you. And even if they oppose it or bring up your faults, recieve it and it gives you time to examine yourself as well. Regardless of their intention, God might very well be bringing attention to something you need to deal with in your own life.
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