Israel
BANNED
A man may have skewed vision (think beam and mote) and yet gratefully find he remains under instruction as a member of the household. And for that, thanks be to God, I say! Even learning a love of every word.
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten.
Yet there remain places a man may discover when carried away by his own presumption, that he seeks after grace to escape and a learning to resist a return visit.
The instruction to "let grow together" becomes welcome command to what is growing in the midst of other growing things. The necessity of being under command becomes not burden, but very proof of love. One is reminded there is indeed a commander, a captain. Even if at times and when necessary, he is reminded with stripes. He is learning he has been made fit for them, and the constancy he begins to learn there speak of the consistency of life.
Indulgence is born in the pot of religiosity, abundance of affection is revealed in the crucible of Jesus Christ.
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten.
Yet there remain places a man may discover when carried away by his own presumption, that he seeks after grace to escape and a learning to resist a return visit.
The instruction to "let grow together" becomes welcome command to what is growing in the midst of other growing things. The necessity of being under command becomes not burden, but very proof of love. One is reminded there is indeed a commander, a captain. Even if at times and when necessary, he is reminded with stripes. He is learning he has been made fit for them, and the constancy he begins to learn there speak of the consistency of life.
Indulgence is born in the pot of religiosity, abundance of affection is revealed in the crucible of Jesus Christ.