REBUKES AND CORRECTION

The bible has a lot to say about rebukes and correction. It is easy for anyone to say with their mouth that I am not perfect but to really believe it is the question. If truly you are not perfect, then it means there are areas in your life where you are wrong, the test will be when someone corrects you or rebukes. If being rebuked or corrected makes you offended, you are a fool. Prov 9:7,8 says that anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return, and anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt. So don’t bother to correct mockers, they will only hate you, but rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Our response to rebuke and correction is a good test as to whether we are wise or stupid. Prov 1:23 says that the way to receive wisdom and getting to understand the word of God is by receiving rebukes and correction.

There are two ways of knowing that God loves you, one is by sending Jesus Christ to die for our sins John 3:16, and rebuking us and disciplining us. Prov 3:11,12, Heb 12:5-10, Rev 3:19. If we are truly Gods children, then God will rebuke us and chasten us. If we are not disciplined by God when we go astray, it is a proof that we are not His children as claim or perhaps He has given up on us. God rebukes us through many ways, you may hear him rebuke you through a sermon, while reading the bible, through other brothers and sisters in the church and even through unbelievers and he also uses believers who are not as wise as you. He rebuked Abram through Pharaoh, a heathen king, Gen 12:18-20 and Abimelech rebuked this great Patriarch Abraham in Gen 20:9,10. Balaam was rebuked by a donkey. He was a prophet and the donkey can represent an ordinary believer who knows very little. Num 22:28-30, 2Pet 2:16.

Many believers pray a prayer that Moses and David prays in Ex 33:13 and Psalm 25:4 which is a good prayer to pray. Prov 6:23 tells us what the of life is, that is, THE REPROOFS FOR DISCIPLINE ARE THE WAY OF LIFE. Perhaps you have been praying that God may show you His ways but every time you are rebuked you get offended, or wherever you are disciplined you complain and murmur, that is why you have not been growing spiritually. Let us receive reproofs and discipline as gifts from God. 

People who accept discipline are on the pathway to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray. Prov 6:23(NLT)

   He who accepts reproofs will be honored. Prov 13:18b

If you listen to life-giving reproof, you will dwell among the wise. Prov 15:31

All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION and instruction in righteousness. 2Tim 3:16

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