Day 23, Bear Your Trials as Discipline ...

Endure your trials as "discipline"; God treats you as sons. For what "son" is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live? They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.

At the time, discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. So strengthen you drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet ... Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. [Hebrews: 12 7-13]

God Bless All. Amen.