When a coach tells you to run twenty laps is it because he or she is punishing you? No. Good coaches do that because they are training you to be a player with more endurance so the team can have a player with more endurance.
Hebrews 12:6-7 ESV — "For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?"
Hard things are not punishment. They are training. It is that way with EVERY child of His... not just you... the twenty laps are not your identity... you are on the team... you are in the family... you are accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6)... you are loved... God boasts about you... He sings over you and laughs with joy.
Jesus got punished for us. God isn't punishing us. He is training us to reign.
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