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Hebrews 12:5-11 (MSG)

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⁵ So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either. ⁶ It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects. ⁷ God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, ⁸ the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? ⁹ We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live? ¹⁰ While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best. ¹¹ At the time, discipline isn't much fun. It always feels like it's going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it's the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 7) Discipling / Correction - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 7) Suffering / Hardship - Endure hardship as discipline

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 6) Is the Christian yoke easy or difficult? He punishes everyone he accepts as a son

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 9) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 9) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 11) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 11) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)