Excerpt from Life Talks: A Series
"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." - Heb. 12:6.
How deep is the mystery of God's chastening of His children! And how the soul shrinks at the very mention of the word! Yet, in this Hebrews passage is set forth some of the most precious teaching of God's Word as to His loving dealing with the lives of His own. Let us give heed to it. For it touches the deeps of Christian experience in that it brings us face to face with God's wondrous grace in over-ruling the mystery of suffering to the enrichment and unspeakable blessing of the lives of His children. And let us note, first, that
Chastening is God's "child-training."
That is what the word means. It is built upon the Greek word "child." It is the root-word for "child" with the verb termination added to it. It means "to deal with as a child," to "child-train." Nine times in the passage occurs the word "son," "child," and "father." God is speaking to His own. We are His own dear children.
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