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Embracing God’s Discipline: A Path to Wisdom
In today’s meditation, we explore Proverbs 12:1, reflecting on the importa… (visit YouTube for more)
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Well, we’ve got some strong words in today’s meditation verse, but let’s not shy away from it. Let’s press into the whole of God’s counsel in scripture. Proverbs 12 verse one. Whoever loves discipline, loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Yes, it actually says ‘stupid’, and it says that in a few translations. The KJV says ‘brutish’.
So the writer of the Proverbs is being pretty clear here about those of us who refuse to be corrected. That’s stupid. It’s ridiculous. It harms ourselves. In fact, good discipline, good training, good bringing up in the knowledge of what is good and what’s bad, this is so good for us that it’s very, very foolish for us to ignore it or to push it away.
In fact, the writer of Proverbs says that we should desire this. We should love it. We should love being disciplined. That’s quite counterintuitive, isn’t it? We associate discipline primarily with punishment. But the discipline of God is intended to bring us up into mature adulthood as his beloved children.
Discipline isn’t just a negative thing. Discipline is showing people a better way to live.
If we use the term someone is ‘very disciplined’, we mean that they have a good control over their time, over their priorities, over their motivation.
And the best discipline of all is the discipline that comes from our Heavenly Father because we know that when he disciplines us, it is with the best of motives and it is a sign that he loves us. So we should love his discipline as we love him. And as we do that will bring us deeper into wisdom.
My friends, would we be wise or would we be stupid? Let’s follow Proverbs 12 verse one.
