Pay for It!

15 July 2007 – Pay for It!

Hebrew 12:11

No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

Have not we experienced that we are being trained of something by someone? Or can you commemorate the days of your participation in your uniformed organization such as Red Crescent, St. John, Boy Scout, Girl Guide, etc? Did the trainer express strictness and threatens? Are you enjoying the training as a trainee?

Honestly, the answer must be on negative aspect. It should be No! No one likes to be trained and disciplined, but we have to experience it no matter what. It is because discipline can make us a better person, a more enduring person, person with commitment, etc. We might be enjoying the outcome at the end, but we will suffer before all of this!!

In the Word of God, God said that, no discipline is enjoyable when it is happening, it is painful! Why others still continue carrying out these kinds of training even though they know that it must be painful? Are they some kind of torturer? They want us to suffer then they will enjoy with the happiness? No! Certainly not!

Notice that after the painful section, what did God say? There will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way! It is the fact everyone of us enjoy a peaceful harvest of living right, if the answer is yes, then you must accept this way of training. The main point is that today if we are suffering from training or being disciplined; we will then enjoy what we have done afterward with the outcome!

Indeed, you have to pay for what you had done, if you had suffered, and then you will enjoy the end result, that is the reason for the title today.

Franco