God Speaks On Being An Austere Father
There may be times in My children’s lives, servant Jacob, when I, the Lord God, might have to chastise them, or afflict them in different ways. There may be times when their naughty behavior is so outrageous and arrogant, that I, the Lord God, might decide in their better interest, its time to change their naughty behavior from within. I may decide to chastise them for the good of their own mind, body, and soul.
For I, the Lord God, always know if My children are following My strict, profitable, commandments and straight ways. I continually observe them to see if they are obeying Me, or if they are seeking the corruption and contemptible things of this low-base world today. I, the Lord God, always know in My heart if they are listening to My advice, or they are seeking to disrupt or change My order and will for their lives. Therefore, if I have a controversy with My children over their unruly and damaging behavior, I may have to use My rod of affliction or correction upon them in some way to change them for the good.
For the chastisement and affliction I Am speaking about today can make them to look more like My Son, Jesus. The stripes I put upon them will help to make them more humble, honest, and sincere in their approach to both Me and My Son. Therefore this rod I own can be used internally or externally upon them at anytime. It can be used to affect their outward, as well as their inward appearance. This rod can be used to change their minds and their thoughts for the good. It can be used to change their vain, outward, physical appearance as well. It can be used to affect their mental capabilities to overcome their difficulties, and this rod can be used to affect their physical abilities to speak, walk, and run with vigor.
For the challenges I, the Lord God, often put My children through are to mold them into more beautiful and sustaining children of the light. Therefore, as the stern Father that I Am over them, I can use any means at My disposal to achieve the results of perfection that I desire. I can change their outward appearance negatively with sores and wounds so they will not be able to think of being vain, repulsive, and troublesome in My sight. I can also afflict My children inwardly and internally with problems if they are not obeying My will, and the structured obedience I desire them to accomplish in their lives.
Therefore, servant Jacob, you need not go any further than Job in My Bible to see that I, the Lord God, have complete power and control over all of My creatures here. I can afflict My children in many seen, as well as unseen ways. I can also afflict the people who are near them and all around them. For My humbling rod of affliction and correction knows no limitations or bounds. Therefore, I, the Lord God, can punish anyone here with sore wounds and diseases for the material things of temporary wealth and idolatry they are seeking to acquire and run after today.
I can also punish them in their inward thoughts and minds for their refusal to see Me on My own terms. For you see servant Jacob, even My own Son Jesus, received some wounds and stripes when He first walked this earth. He had to drink from My sorrowful cup, though He did not want to. My Son even had to go through a time of woe, sorrows, and trials for the acknowledgement of greatness I bestowed upon Him in the heavens above.
For it is a known fact in heaven that affliction of one’s mind and body is good for one’s soul. Therefore, it is good for My children at times to go through sorrows and troubles to make them appreciate the magnificent wonder, healing power, and splendor that I possess. For I, the Lord God, love My children dearly when they are innocent, meek, and outstandingly beautiful before Me today. I love them when they are cheerful givers to others, and they are humble out of sight praying children before Me and My Son.
However, I Am not comforted in My heart and mind when they are crude, vile, vain, curt, and behaviorally defiant towards Me in any way. I get angry with them when they try to be scoffers and blasphemers of the holy words in My Bible. I become a jealous God towards them when they decide to worship other gods and idols, instead of only worshipping and praising Me and My Son, Jesus. Therefore, I, the Lord God, often test and try them with My rod of affliction and chastisement when they are stiff-necked and obstinate towards Me and My Son, Jesus.
I, the Lord God, can make their days long and profitable upon this earth, or I can make their days full of sorrows, weeping, and tears. It is up to them to not seek to disapprove of My reprimanding and stern hand. Instead, they should be grateful that I Am taking the time to make them more beautiful and innocent in My eyes.
If My children continually go against Me and refuse My decisions for their lives, then I, the Lord God, have the ability to break them down and to change their direction for the good. For I always know what they are thinking about in their own hearts and minds today. I know where their secret places and their weaknesses are. I also know where all of their strengths need to be reinforced and renewed from above.
Therefore, I Am a profound teacher of My children even though many of them do not know that I Am present and always active in their lives. I can reprimand them with diseases and pain at any time for their naughty, mischievous, and selfish behavior. I can also reward them at any time with the beauty, love, peace, comfort, and grace that remains within Me.
For it is in My heart and mind today to bring many of My children out of the mire, mold, and dysentery that they are dwelling in. It is in My heart and mind to make them more like My Son, Jesus, in every way. Therefore, like My Son, I may require them to go through a series of trials and troubles upon this earth. I, the Lord God, may allow some of them to receive many stripes, wounds, and punishment upon them for their disobedience to My commandments, My straight ways, My Son, Jesus, and Me. They might also have to go through trials and distress if they have not respected either Me or My Son.
For in My eyes they become more beautiful when they look more like My Son. Therefore, a few wounds and bruises on them here and there will not hurt them, but might even help them in their appearance before Me. Their bruises, trials, and troubles here will help them to be more innocent, meek, and beautiful little children in My sight. It will help them to be less vain and obstinate, and instead more understanding and loving towards others who may have the same fate bestowed upon them.
A few wounds and bruises will help My children to know Me in new ways as a Father that sometimes needs to call them to the woodshed to give them stripes for their disobedience. For the true fact is, watchman, I Am a strict Father at times with the children who are disobedient to My commandments, My statutes, My precepts, My straight ways, and My profitable words. Therefore, it might be in My heart and mind at times to punish some of them for their own good. It might be in My mind to correct them in good measure as they ascend up My holy mountain called Zion.
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