My
son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are
rebuked by Him —Hebrews 12:5
It
is very easy to grieve the Spirit of God; we do it by despising the discipline
of the Lord, or by becoming discouraged when He rebukes us. If our experience
of being set apart from sin and being made holy through the process of
sanctification is still very shallow, we tend to mistake the reality of God for
something else. And when the Spirit of God gives us a sense of warning or
restraint, we are apt to say mistakenly, “Oh, that must be from the devil.”
“Do
not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and do not despise Him when He
says to you, in effect, “Don’t be blind on this point anymore— you are not as
far along spiritually as you thought you were. Until now I have not been able
to reveal this to you, but I’m revealing it to you right now.” When the Lord
disciplines you like that, let Him have His way with you. Allow Him to put you
into a right-standing relationship before God.
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