“While correction is never fun sometimes it’s the best kind of love.”
I continue to see how much I am like a sheep. They are easily cast down and thrown off putting them in much danger. While you can’t completely prevent this from happening one reason sheep are prone to this situation is an excess of wool. The sheep however, do not like the process of being sheared, even though they find relief from the hot heavy coat that is often clogged with manure, mud, burrs and ticks. We are so much like sheep. We too don’t like the process of things being sheared from our lives. It’s not until looking back, until we see all we’ve been carrying from the place of being free that we find we are glad for the shears. So although the refining is painful, the freedom is worth it.
“A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them.”
Proverbs 13:24 MSG
We have a good good Father. Sometimes we are like the sheep being sheared unable to see His goodness. We don’t like the shearing and thus conclude that He isn’t good. Like the sheep who can’t see all that has gotten in its wool neither can we see all that is keeping us from freedom. Thus, we must trust our Good Shepherd and know that it is always in love that He brings out the shears. Our Good Father is always for us and always with us, even when it’s impossible to see through the pain. While not everything painful is His disciplining, He still remains a good Father in everything painful. So whatever process you find yourself in with the Lord you can always go back to knowing that He is your Good Good Father who does everything, yes everything, truly everything in love.
Adapted from A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, Phillip Keller
For a little more on our “Good Good Father” check out this song by Housefires…
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