Hebrews 12:4-7,11-15
The Lord disciplines those he loves.
These are the words spoken to us from the letter of Hebrews as we begin this month of February.
The Lord disciplines those he loves.
It is no accident that the word 'discipline' and the word 'disciple' have a very similar root.
The word disciple means to be a follower and a learner. Discipline means to train someone to follow rules and to prepare someone interiorly as well as exteriorly.
The link is obvious and not easily overlooked.
It simply means that everything we experience in life has built in it by th grace of God a learning opportunity.
Every joy, every struggle, every bit of tension and anxiety, worry or fear, love and celebration all of it is a learning opportunity for us to become more clear in discipleship.
In particularly, the hardships. They too are, in the hands of God, a tool that is meant to chisel and shape us more perfectly into the image of Christ himself.
God wants to perfect his love in us.
At the end of each day as we look back on the day that was we should invite the Holy Spirit to show us what we were meant to learn that in the discipline experienced we might stand more perfect a disciple of Christ.
Pax et Bonum
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