EMBRACE CORRECTION

April 2, 2013

One of the most difficult things for most of us to accept is correction especially when it is coming from another person. Even if we have problems, we don’t want other people to know we have them. When we need correction – which most of all us always do, the first thing is God desires  to correct us Himself.

God prefers to correct us privately, but if we won’t yield to His correction, or we don’t know how to accept His correction privately, He will correct us publicly using whatever source. In the case of Balaam, God used his donkey. I am focusing on being corrected by others today.

Often time our first impulse when being corrected by another person is to find fault in the “correcter”. “After all, you always do worse things also.” Satan tempts us to do this in order to divert us from the real issue and rob  us of the benefit to be derived from the correction.

Joyce Meyer said that “Being corrected by God through people in authority such as the government, employers, parents, spouses and teachers is something each of us will encounter throughout life.”

Of a truth, we may not like the source God is using to correct us, but it is wisdom to accept the correction anyway to avoid “going round the mountain one more time.” Deut 2:3

Embracing correction is also another way God uses in speaking to us by Himself or through others. Many think that hearing from God will always be supremely spiritual, but there are various examples in the Bible that tells us clearly that God uses natural things to reveal Himself as well as spiritual ones. Be open to correction, take it as a gift and go work on it.

Always remember that whom the Father loves, He chastises (corrects). Heb 12:6. Every way and any way you have been robbed of certain blessings as a result of not embracing correction, I pray that God will give you a change of heart and you will have double restoration in Jesus Name. Amen!

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