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Consider who endures sinners,
With hostile contradictions;
Grow not weary to be winners,
That results from the afflictions.
You struggle by resisting sin,
To the point of shedding your blood;
While building your discipline,
Temptations as a raging flood.
You forget the exhortation,
Addressing you as a child;
Despise not if God does chasten,
When you do start to go wild.
The Lord disciplines that are dear,
Chastises all who He receives;
As you endure you must revere,
With having faith that one believes.
God treats you as sons and daughters,
As your Father to discipline;
And immersed in baptismal waters,
Chastening you because of sin.
You would be illegitimate,
If you go without discipline;
Making you a degenerate,
Going wayward because of sin.
Earthly fathers did discipline,
Who we did show our respect;
Our reverence should begin,
Never to rebel or reject.
Discipline is not for pleasure,
Rather it is for our good;
Because of the love they treasure,
For us to do as what we should.
Discipline seems painful not joy,
But later will yield peaceful fruit;
For the righteousness to employ,
To filter out what would pollute.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
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Fatherly Discipline
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