--GOD'S CORRECTION~~

"For whom the Lord loves he reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights."
--(Proverbs 3:12 / NASB) ~

~~Many times God uses affliction to bring me to my knees, so to speak. I don't feel old even though I'm in my sixties, but I have had many hard knocks in life. I know that each time God brings my heart low through tribulation, He wants to draw me closer than I was before. I thik of what David wrote in Psalm 119:67) / "Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." Through many hardships and tribulations we come to a true, deep, and unsophisticated state of genuine submission. God's correction does not bring pleasure to our flesh, but "it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised by it" (Hebrews 12:11).

With anguish of soul we cry out as David did in affliction. We remember that we are dust and that God is a loving Father. Do we truly appreciate the trials that God is using to make us wiser?

When we consider where we were before our tribulations, or where we might be without them, our hearts should overflow with gratitude to God for each one of them. They can make us better or they can make us bitter; the choice is up to us. Let's keep our faith in the Faithful One, Jesus Christ.--

--BSW/FB
--"Even If"// (lyric video) MercyMe~<https://youtu.be/PT_X7daBsCo>
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