WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE PART 5 of 8

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE

PART 5 of 8

TO TEACH US OBEDIENCE 

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   Let us hear from the Apostle Paul from the twelfth chapter of Hebrews:

5)  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him:

6)  For whom the Lord loves He chastens and scourges every son whom He receives.

7)  If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

8)  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9)  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:  shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10)  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

11)  Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:  nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.  King James Version (KJV), Public Domain

COMMENTARY

   These days, parents are severely discouraged from correcting their children with corporal punishment but God says that is exactly what you are to do!  Do you realize that God chastens and scourges His own sons? 

   God's kingdom is paradoxal.  Take the case of King David in the Old Testament:  Kings in his day had the power and freedom to do as they wanted without accountability.  However, when King David was called out for covetousness, adultery, murder, and lying, he was chastened by God.  Not as an unbeliever, but as God's child, to make him think twice before he found himself in that sort of situation again.  The best part of that was that was that the Prophet Nathan TOLD King David what his punishment would be for his sins.  For an unbeliever, it would have been death.  God did not dis-own David, but also did not want him to repeat his mistakes.  Being a representative of God's kingdom bears responsibility.  We are to live a life set apart from the world, that we might be identified with The Kingdom.

   We learn respect for our Heavenly Father Who is holy.  He cannot look upon sin.  One day soon, we will live with Him in paradise, so we need to be trained on how to conduct ourselves now.

   Then, take note of what we receive because of the chastening:  the peaceable fruit of righteousness!  This results in a closer walk with Jesus and who doesn't want that?  The Holy Spirit moves us better.  We grow closer to our Heavenly Father.

   Psalms  119 :71 states, 67) Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept Thy Word.  71) It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.  KJV

What about you?  Do you know that you learn more in the valley than on the mountain?  Adversity, even in this world, can strengthen you.  How much more can chastisement prepare us as children of The Most High God?   If you have not accepted Jesus as your personal Savior and been born into His family, click here to learn how to take care of that:  https://omaswisdom.blogspot.com/p/path-to-salvation.html.

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