How do you feel about correction?
Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise. Proverbs 15:12
Gracious Father,
Throughout your word,
we find you calling us
to heed correction and discipline.
And yet, we confess,
we resist it;
sometimes we even resent it.
How desperately we need your correction, though,
for our hearts are stubborn and still plagued by sin;
we are too much the wayward sheep,
all going our own way (See Isaiah 53:6).
How desperately we need a Savior,
and how desperately we need to trust your discipline
as a kindness to us.
We do not want to be people
who “despise the Lord’s discipline,”
who “resent your rebuke” (Prov. 3:11).
Rather, make us your very own children
who know that you “discipline the one you love” (Hebrews 11:6),
who trust that your discipline,
while it seems painful,
“yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11).
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Read Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 15:12; Hebrews 12:3-11.
