OH! How I hate To Be Chatized: How Can It Be For My Good?

If you endure chastening, God dealeth

with you as with sons; for what son is he

whom the Father chasteneth not?

But if ye be without chastizement, 

whereof all are partakers, then are

ye not bastards, and not sons? 

Furthermore we have had fathers of

our flesh which corrected us, and we

gave them reverence: shall we not 

much rather be in subjection unto

the Father of spirits, and live? For 

they verily for a few days chastened 

us after their own pleasure; but He

 for our profit, that we might partakers

of His holiness. Now no chastening

for the present seemeth to be joyuous,

but grievous: nevertheless afterward

it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of

righteousness unto them which are

exercised thereby.

Hebrews 12:7-11

     God chastens those Whom He loves! May not seem that way during the chastenizing but it is for our good and that good is to return us to the truth in our words, deeds, thoughts, our worship to God. Left by ourselves we would not what to come back to God because we left Him in the first place thinking that we had a better way, a better understanding. We have examples how God chastizes His people, the curse uoon Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, the imprisonment of Jacob who through His chastizening endured albeit it was not due to his unbelief. The 430 years where the Hebrew people were slaves and even their refusal to worship God and believe God losing their right to enter into the promised land. There are many more examples that could be cited showing that when man does not heed the chastizing of God there are consequences that they had ot face. In every case there is an element of unbelief by either parth and consequences that each had to face due to not allowing this chastizing to cause a renewal of faith. 

     In today's culture children are seldom chastized for their actions. "Boys will be boys" is a cry often heard given some excuse for a reason why a boy has done something considered wrong. Girls are often given a pass due to their being a girl, again an excuse but not a reason for their actions. Children are given freedoms that they have not earned or are given them to soon as they are not yet mature enough to handle consequences that arise. What is not being done is for parents to teach their children right from wrong and then inspect what they expect. Parents must be proactive or there is a great chance that things will not go  well for their children who are under their supervision. Look at our prison, full, overlowing and much due to little or no parenting . 

     Parents make their own excuses why they do not have the time to teach their children. Really?? The truth is: you do not make time. If we are Authentic Christians we do what our God has instructed us to do in regards to our spouses, our children, our workers, and has given us examples how He handles this problem of rejection to His word. WE CHOOSE! God does not take away our ability to choose. God has provided a way to faith, a way to salvation and all that is required is that a person heed the call of God and choose Him, and The Only Begotten Son and allow the Holy Spirit to lead and not to be led by our own desires and lusts. 

      I am writing this without glasses as my nose and forehead are a big long incision and I cannot see well so if I have mispelled, please excuse me. I am healing and will get better for God has provided man and women who are skill doctors, medicines as we never had before. Now, I must choose what God has allowed to be provided for my health. Choice it is is ours to choose.

But the salvation of the righteous

     is of the LORD: He is their strength

in time of trouble. And the LORD shall

    help them, and deliver them: He shall

deliver them from the wicked, and save them,

     because they trust in Him.

                       Psalm137:39-40

Train up your children in the Lord

Richard L. Crumb

Loving In The Image Of Jesus Christ

Ye have not resisted unto blood,

striving against sin. And ye have 

forgotten the exhortation which 

speaketh unto you as unto little

children, My son, despise not thou My

the chastening of the Lord, nor faint

when thou art rebuked of him for whom

the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and 

scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.

Hebrews 12:4-6

     The last three weeks have been in the least trying, a time that no one wants to endure, but many are and dealing with worse things than what I have, Melonomia cancer, The struggle is far from over with two more reconstruction surgeries and other thing that were found during examination. Thanks for friends, but one thing that is discouraging is that those friends do not believe in Jesus Christ and my Church family has not even contacted me, but did leave messages that they would pray for me. Easy to say, but often is only a salve on their desire to sound godly. I am not so upset as I am discouraged for this seems to be the culture of the Church today, go to hear a sermon, go to some events, listen to "Christian Music," etc., but never getting to do intercessory prayer. As Authentic Christians we are to care for our brothers and sisters, not the other way around where non-Christians are doing what Christians should be doing. Why bring this up? 

     Jesus Christ loved us so much that He was willing to lower Himself as the Wisdom of God to become The Only Begotten Son of God, all because He loves His children. We too should love like Jesus. As the writer of Hebrews writes: we have forgotten the exhortation that we are the children of God and while we must go through various trials and temptations, Jesus Christ never leaves us, but we leave Him. How? By not caring for those in need in your Church. Do not do what we as Christians are to do then we will face chastening, one way or form, or another. It is this chastisement that will bring us back into the fold of God's shceep. 

     God does not hate us, He hates sin! God loves us: He died for us! We are to be in His image! So then we all must ask the question, are we really living in the image of Jesus Christ? This is how we help those in need and how we show the love of God to the world. 

     I am writing this under much duress for my eyes are covered much with the skin from my forehead, a flap that will generate new skin where they removed the cancer.  thank you for  your prayers, and do pray for my brother who has been diagnozed with kidney cancer and is facing his time of trial. 

Happy is he that hath God

      of Jacob for his help,

whose hope is in the LORD 

    his God.

                  Psalm 146:5

We are truly blessed

Richard L. Crumb

 

 

 

And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

John 6:29

     I had surgery and am getting ready for another one Friday. A lymph node was removed as well to determine if the is matastisis, if so more surgery will be needed. I cherish your prayers and hope to be at it soon. Thank you!

Richard L. Crumb