Thursday – But I Don’t Want to Practice
Focus Passage: Hebrews 12:9-11
Read: Job 5:17; Job 23:8-12; Proverbs 12:1; Psalm 119: 65-68
I’ve heard it over and over, “But, dad, I don’t want to practice. I just like to play the game!” My son likes sports, but practice…not so much. Why? It’s probably because it can be difficult, with lots of repetition of drills to hone skills and correct and improve technique. In this way each individual, and therefore the whole team, gets better. Games are then more fun and they have a better chance of winning. It takes a coaches firm and continued discipline to make good team.
Like a coach or a father, God disciplines us for our good, our betterment. That good that he desires in us is holiness, to be more like Christ. Like practice, the Lord’s discipline may not be fun, it may be painful, but it will produce good fruit for those trained by it. Since we know this is true, should we not willingly submit to it?
1. In unpleasant times, can you see God moving you along on the journey towards holiness?
2. How can you develop a positive outlook toward God’s training and correction and willingly submit?
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