Heeding Instruction On The Pathway To Life
“I don’t believe God disciplines anyone,” she told me as we stood outside the back doors of the hospital on our morning coffee break. I have to admit, I was caught off guard. Linda (name changed for privacy) had been doing prison ministries with me for a couple years. I found her full of God’s compassion, and I enjoyed hearing her speak about the Lord’s guidance over our lives. “Linda, the bible clearly tells us He disciplines us as a loving Father would,” came my automatic answer. “I know, but that was like what He did to Eli, or those other people in the Old Testament” was her reassurance to me. My conversation with Linda that day brought me to more and more of an awareness of how many people don’t understand the discipline we receive yet today. And without understanding that it is there, it can be hard to receive it as it was meant and change our thoughts and deeds in accordance with God’s Will.