{"id":3586,"date":"2008-10-14T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/chastening"},"modified":"2008-10-14T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:16:30","slug":"chastening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/10\/14\/chastening\/","title":{"rendered":"CHASTENING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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     Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
     thou art rebuked of Him. <\/p>\n

     — Hebrews 12:5 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is very easy to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the
chastening of the Lord, by fainting when we are rebuked by Him. If we
have only a shallow experience of sanctification, we mistake the
shadow for the reality, and when the Spirit of God begins to check,
we say – oh, that must be the devil. <\/p>\n

Never quench the Spirit, and do not despise Him when He says to you –
""Don’t be blind on this point any more; you are not where you thought
you were. Up to the present I have not been able to reveal it to you,
but I reveal it now."" When the Lord chastens you like that, let Him
have His way. Let Him relate you rightly to God. <\/p>\n

""Nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him."" We get into sulks with God
and say – ""Oh, well, I can’t help it; I did pray and things did not
turn out right, and I am going to give it all up."" Think what would
happen if we talked like this in any other domain of life! <\/p>\n

Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me
that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I
want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants
to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and
spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when      thou art rebuked of Him.      — Hebrews 12:5 It is very easy to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the chastening of the Lord, by fainting when we are rebuked by Him. If we have only a shallow experience of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}