Are you a servant or a
son? The answer to that question is found in your
obedience. Each of us possess a correct-ability factor, a
scale from servant to son, with humility as the ink of progress,
and pride as its whiteout. The difference between servant
and son is not cognitive, it is attitudinal! The former
holds no relationship with his master, other than the hand to
mouth. The latter however, relates to his master out of
love. He is the one who seeks with his whole heart to
avoid even the necessity for correction, but if it comes, he
bows to its blessed yoke.
"Correction is grievous unto him that
forsaketh the way: ..." Though the comprehension is there
for both; the servant abhors it in his pride, and spends his
days out on the Boulevard of the Brut, having forsaken the
cul-de-sac of HIS loving correction.
Bound in
self-righteousness, many suppose they can be incorrect with
terrestrial authority, and yet correct with celestial.
Children attempt this with parents, employees with employers,
citizens with government, believers with pastors; ... and it
never fares well. Masters come in all shapes and sizes;
thus to prosper, you must do
away with your selective submission and become correctable.
"Obey them that have the rule over you,
and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they
that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not
with grief: for that is unprofitable for you."
How is your profit and loss statement in regard to correction?
Is your submission stock headstrong toward a crash course?
"For whom the LORD loveth HE correcteth; even as a father the
son in whom he delighteth." Correction is
designed of the LORD to nurture us unto godliness; but if we
become puffed up and selectively obstinate, refusing to answer
... we deny ourselves
correction's due grace in our lives.
"... they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder
than a rock; they have refused to return." What good company we
find ourselves in though, when we yield to instruction and embrace
correction. Even of CHRIST in HIS humanity, it is written:
"Though HE were a SON, yet learned HE obedience ..."
It is sobering to consider, but at the end of the day,
our personal correction
report arrives at GOD'S desk for review.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of
GOD, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness:"