Chastened.

Pro 3:11  My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 

Pro 3:12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 

Weary of correction.

Our lives are filled with correction that God wants to impart to us, and He wants to impart the correction because He loves us. Truly most of us can comprehend chastening someone because you love them, right?  Life isn't all about letting our flesh nature rule without reigning it in. There are some who believe that no discipline, no chastising is better- but that’s not true at all. We need correction, we need chastising, we need teaching and that's what all the correction, all the chastising is for.  We need to learn, we need to be willing to learn.

How does the LORD chasten us?

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 

Jas 5:11  Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 

Heb 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

Heb 10:32  But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions

Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

 We are chastened as we live in these bodies of flesh, flesh that does not want to yield to the spirit but rather reign in us, ruling us. The flesh wars against the spirit.

Rom_8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom_8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom_8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom_8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom_13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof

We are chastened through our flesh, may God help us to live in the Spirit and not the flesh! May the chastening and the correction from our Heavenly Father have its way in us so we can learn from Him and belong wholly to Him in all ways, in all things! Please… we would be YOURS! Please.