DISCIPLINE:
CORRECTIVE

How good it would be if we could learn that God is easy to live with. 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.

Psalm 103:13–14; Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:5–11

The Root of the Righteous, 14.