Chastening...

He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

 

 

A W Tozer

 

"My (daughter), despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,

nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

 

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,

and scourgeth every (daughter) whom he receiveth.

 

If ye endure chastening,

God dealeth with you as with (daughters);

for what (daughter) is (she) whom the father chasteneth not?

 

Hebrews 12:5-7