These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Discipline

That discipline is often rough,
we find it daily true
for practice is the daily stuff
that's growing me and you.

The Lord will never leave His son,
nor daughter yet untrained.
His Truth in every victory won,
His Wisdom ever plain.

No discipline will comfort give,
while daily in the way,
but through each test, a new can live
to teach us to obey.

First Peter 5, and in verse 10,
we find a salient Truth,
"We suffer some to perfect win,
to make a settled youth."

"The Lord will chastise every love,
and scourge each son received."
His discipline is from Above,
each lamb of His retrieved.

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“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
(Hebrews12:6, KJV)

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by Jay O’Toole
on January 21st, 2022