No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11
What kind of crop are you trying to cultivate? What are you willing to put up with and how long are you willing to wait for it? Anyone who has so much as raised a house plant or a garden knows that you need patience more than anything when dealing with living things. The Hebrew writer compares our Christian life to that kind of growth; slow, deliberate but with an outcome that we can count on. Keep the plant watered, keep the pests away, wait and get the harvest. We can endure discipline because we know that righteousness and peace are worth the wait.
Ethan Kirl
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