Today’s devotion comes from 2 Kings 15:32-38. Here is a link to this Scripture – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2015&version=NASB1995
I quote only the following verses.
“In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah became king. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. He did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.” 2 Kings 15:32-35.
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“Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 13:6.
“12 For whom the LORD loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
13 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom
And the man who gains understanding.” Proverbs 3:12-13.
“He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.” Proverbs 13:24.
But, there is hope!
“It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Hebrews 12:7-11.
And, there is the promise!
“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48.
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