I am understanding more that "CHARACTER" is hard to come by, this is why people are so leery about getting into relationships. The funny thing is we often see the issues of others before we realize our own. We are blind to the OWN-UP.
We sin by nature...
We already know this...
Yet we often find ourselves not keeping an eye on ourselves.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
It is because of this that we are quick to stray to evil deeds and without God we will never do otherwise. A young man stated that he was illuminated to this aspect because he was appaled by the fact that he strayed into a lifestyle of sinning and did not feeling bad about it what he was doing. Only a working relationship with God could bring that young man into such thinking. Sadly we are decieved about the many aspects of being in a relationship with God, one such characteristic is discipline. This is the thing many parents have traded in for incarceration by the state government.
God does discipline those who are His children. Some believe if you are not disciplined you are not saved. Hence the title TO ILLEGITAMATE TO START. It may be hard to believe, but you actually want to be spanked...when necessary.
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
12:8 But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.
When God spanks, be thankful, because if He doesn't...
For more insight read Romans 8:12-17
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