(November 20, 2015)
In our
modern society, all too often we believe that love goes hand in hand with
acceptance – if someone doesn’t accept us where we are, then they do not love
us. But the Lord’s view (which, of
course, we should emulate [like everything else He does]) is different. In His view, love and chastisement go hand in
hand – because He loves us, He blesses us with trials, adversity, hardship, and
pain.
Of
course the nature of our relationships with one another is different than the
relationship of Christ with us. We are not
in the position to heap chastisement and adversity on each other, nor would we
have the wisdom to correctly do so. But
we also should not seek to assist those that we love in avoiding the chastisement
that the Lord wants to bless them with for their unrighteous behavior. That is the point where we go from loving
those around us to enabling their disobedience.
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