The last couple of posts I've talked about discipline: the importance of not being stubborn when the Lord reveals that there is something in your life that He needs to touch and heal, then resting in that discipline to let Him do the work.
This time I want to share some verses in Jeremiah 31 that show what happens when the discipline has done its work.
4 "Again I will build you, and you shall be built O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines."
Israel was promised that God would bring them back to the land after 70 years of discipline in Babylon. Notice how they come back:
:9 "With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water; in a straight path in which they shall not stumble."
Repentance and discipline brings with it sorrow for walking away from God. I also brings with it cries for God's mercy because we realize how inadequate we are on our own. But returning from that discipline brings with it the refreshment of once again having a close relationship with God-all that crud has been dealth with and done away with.
It also brings a "straight path" which to me indicates that what was stumbling us has been removed, so now our walk with God is much more sure and stable and we less likely to fall into the same thing again.
Pastor Tom
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