What are you passing through now? It may not be that you are living in sin. It may be that God wants you to grow spiritually.
An immature child will never understand certain details of keeping the treasure of his parents. He may not even know the significance of the treasures.
When we fail to grow, God will allow untoward circumstances that will make us develop so as to be qualified for his hidden treasures.
No man gets promoted without passing through interview or test. So will our faith be tested whenever there is need for us to move forward to a higher level spiritually.
It is wrong to stay complacent on the same level of faith for so long hence the need for God to correct us in love.
The writer of Hebres in chapter 12 from verse 5-12 show us what we need to benefit when God chastises us.
'And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou aart rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chasteisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them revernce: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verify for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chasteneing for the present seemeth to be joyours, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruti of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.'
From the passage read, it is clear that:
*God chastises all his children with no exception.
*Bastards are the ones not chastised.
*Chastisement is for our profit.
*It makes us to be partakers of his holiness.
*It yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
Always remember this point. God's thoughts toward you are for your good. Use the circumstance to maximum benefit.
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