Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord, the one you teach from your law;
Psalms 94:12 NIV
The D word.
In childhood it was a bad thing. As an adult, it’s confirmation that God is still investing in you.
You’re like a profitable account deserving of endless contributions to create a greater and greater value asset.
Learning is life long, which more often than not happens not by doing things right but doing things poorly and experiencing such negative consequences, never to do it again.
Therein lies the blessing.
Even now, just like when we were children, we need instruction that clears a pathway to maturity and creates trust in the teacher and his imparting of divine knowledge of good and evil and the consequences of each.
But the teacher will teach only when invited to your classroom.
Our finite minds are poorly equipped yet too proud to accept or invite instruction.
Live and learn, or better yet, learn and live.
Life is a classroom that produces the best students because the best teacher cares enough to show up every morning to make his investments.