189. Wisdom For Life’s Relationships: Loving Those Who Cannot Help Us, And Loving By Discipline (Proverbs 19:17-19)

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8/17/2025

Turn with me to Proverbs 19:17-19. These are our verses to study and memorize this week.

Proverbs 19:17-19 One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, And He will repay him for his good deed. 18 Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death. 19 A man of great anger will bear the penalty, For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

Introduction

Proverbs 19:15-24 is a chiastic arrangement of verses which caps off our broader section’s focus on “finding good” in our relationships. Last time, we saw the danger of laziness to our relationships in verse 15. This will be matched and echoed in verse 24 when we get there. Then in verse 16 we saw that a foundational reality which affects all our relationships is whether or not we keep “the commandment” to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and might. This is paired with verse 23 which will again look at the foundation of all relationships when we consider the fear of the Lord.

Now in verse 17 (which will correlate with verse 22) we will look at graciousness to the poor and God’s reward of that behavior. We will also look at verses 18-19 to see the important place of discipline in our relationships. First we will see the need for correction for children, and then the need to let people learn from the consequences of their habitually sinful actions.

Have you ever wondered how you should relate to the needs of poor people around you, and how God views our interactions in those relationships? Verse 17 will give us that clarifying guidance on the perspective and behaviors we should have with them.

Have you ever struggled with disciplining your children and been tempted to just overlook their bad behaviors? As they have grown, have you ever struggled with wondering if you should bail them or others close friends out of the problems that they have yet again made for themselves? Verses 18-19 gives us strong commands on how to handle these issues in our relationships with them. With that overview, let’s take a closer look at Proverbs 19:17-19.

17 One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, And He will repay him for his good deed.

Graciously helping a poor person is like making a loan to God. While the poor person might not be able to repay, the Lord sees and will.

Within our section’s chiasm this verse correlates with Proverbs 19:22.

Proverbs 19:22 What is desirable in a man is his kindness, And it is better to be a poor man than a liar.

While being poor is often stigmatized and looked down upon by other people who highly value money, God values kindness and truth. That is what is truly desirable—not riches or lying to preserve or get them.

Both of these verses deal with our heart attitude in dealing with people. They also mention our relationship to the poor. Verse 17 is from the standpoint of someone who is able to help a poor person. This does not necessarily mean one is rich, but it does mean one has the ability to spare something to help someone else with their problem. Verse 22, meanwhile, rebukes the world’s perspective that riches are what is desirable in a person. Instead, it is kindness and graciousness that ought to be valued. Similarly, truthfulness and righteousness ought to be more preferred that money. Thus, these verses approach the situation from different angles, but both deal with the issues of being poor, being gracious to people, and having character in our dealings with them.

This highlights important aspects of what helps to build good in our relationships. We need to have kind, compassionate, gracious hearts towards other people. Our money must not be our god. We are not to be stingy, cold, and calculating with our money when it comes to our relationships with people. Rather, we must love God with all our heart, soul, and might. If we do, then when it is appropriate to our situation and rightfully needed we will use our money to help others. We will not withhold it. Even when there is no hope of repayment or personal benefit out of it we will graciously help others. As we do so, this proverb assures that God sees and will Himself repay us. Of course, it does not tell us when or how. So this is not a promise that we will necessarily receive our money or gift back physically in this life. But it does assure us that when we are truly gracious God sees and will reward us—whether in this life or eternally.

Proverbs 11:25 gave us a similar truth, but it did not specify that God Himself would repay. Instead it focused on the more general blessings and rewards that can come from generosity.

Proverbs 11:25 The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 14:31 also dealt with this topic, but it did so not from the reward standpoint, but rather from the standpoint that the way we treat people actually ends up being a way that we honor or dishonor God.

Proverbs 14:31 He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, But he who is gracious to the needy honors Him.

What is unique about our current proverb from these other verses is that it guarantees that God sees and rewards when we are gracious to help the poor. Despite their inability to repay, a reward will be received.

All in all, this echoes what God declared in the law in Deuteronomy 15:7-11.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 “If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. 9 “Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you. 10 “You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. 11 “For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’

This is what our attitude towards poorer people ought to be. We must not harden our hearts against them. We are to do what we can to help them. We are to entrust what we give as being given to God. In so doing, we can trust that He will repay us what is right in due time and in His perfect way.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture we see a couple examples of this in the book of Ruth. If you remember, both Naomi and Ruth were widowers and poor. Yet, Ruth had something Naomi did not. She had the strong, youthful capability to work and try to provide for their needs. She was kind and helpful to her poor mother-in-law and worked to support her. Naomi did not really have anything to repay Ruth with. If anything she repaid her with bitterness, complaints, and bad advice. But do you remember what happened? God repaid Ruth with Boaz’s kindness and with him eventually becoming her husband.

Beyond that, Boaz himself also lived out this proverb. He was gracious to Ruth. He provided her extra food and protections while she gleaned in his fields. She had nothing with which to repay him. He was kind and gracious anyway. In the end God blessed Boaz with Ruth as a virtuous wife and with a son who furthered Boaz’s family line to ultimately include King David as well as the promised Messiah. For all time Boaz’s graciousness to the poor has been memorialized in Scripture and rewarded with these blessings of God.

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture Matthew 6:1-4 shows us that when we give to the poor we are to do it secretly. We are not to do it to exalt ourselves.

Matthew 6:1-4 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 3 “But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Instead of giving or doing what we do for ourselves or for other people we are to do everything for God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (cf. also Colossians 3:17; 1 Peter 4:11; Matthew 25:40)

As we graciously give to those in need for God’s glory 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 gives us an encouragement.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; (cf. also Luke 6:38)

God sees when we are seeking to honor Him and graciously help others. Though they may not be able to repay us, God will—in His perfect way and time with His sovereign power over all things.

Truth in Connection: For Christians, treating people generously and kindly, especially the poor who have nothing with which to repay us, causes us to follow in the footsteps of Jesus who gave His life for us while we were poor, helpless, and dead in our sins. This brings us great good in our relationships as we learn to selflessly love. It builds our hearts and character in Christ-likeness. Giving selflessly, not to get but to serve and help, ought to be a natural and growing part of our way of life.

If we want what is good and best in our relationships with all people and with God, then we will have the loving heart of God towards the poor. We will love them with God’s love. He in turn will see and reward us even when none others do.

If this way of life is foreign to you, seems like a waste, or appears foolish then you probably do not understand God’s love in Jesus. In the world’s way of doing things we give to get. We might give to be repaid later on. We might give to receive the praise of others. Or, we might even give simply for the appreciation of the one we give to. God’s love is different. He loves because He is good and He is love. With our sinful rebellion against God and His righteousness, we deserve His eternal judgment. In addition to being love, God is also holy and just. So He cannot and will not unjustly ignore our sin. Thus He came at His own pain and expense to bring salvation through dying on the cross in our place. We are utterly poor and destitute, unable to fix or remove our sin. He graciously came to earth to take our punishment upon Himself and redeem all those who trust Him as Lord and Savior. Before you can truly love others you need to know this real kind of love yourself. Turn from your sin and trust Him as Lord and Savior.

Our next four verses in Proverbs 19 turn from the outer matching bands of the chiasm to the emphasized four verse center section. The first two verses, Proverbs 19:18-19, focus on the importance of discipline and the last two, Proverbs 19:20-21, emphasize the importance of heeding the counsel and discipline of the Lord.

Verses 18-19 start out by giving us some hard, but important truths about finding good in our relationships. On the surface discipline might not seem like love. It might not seem like it would result in a good relationship with someone to give them painful discipline, or to allow them to experience the consequences of their actions. Nonetheless, despite seeming counter-intuitive it is what is needed.

18 Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.

Make sure to discipline your children while you still have the opportunity, otherwise, you are working towards their destruction.

This is a command. Most of our proverbs present the truth of what they are communicating in general terms. These proverbs, though, turn more directly to giving commands while they share their truths. It is as if God knew that people would have a hard time accepting and carrying out these aspects of instruction on finding good in their relationship. So He emphasized them in quite a number of ways. First, they are at the beginning of the emphasized part of our chiasm. Second they are given as commands. Third, the actual proverb highlights the extreme consequences of not carrying out this command. If we do not discipline our children we are desiring their death. We are working towards their destruction.

Back in Proverbs 13:24 we had a similar proverb. God really wants us to get the point.

Proverbs 13:24 He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Withholding discipline, including corporal punishment, is hating our children. If we love them we will be diligent to not let them get away with wrong, sinful, destructive behavior.

Right here in our current context, in Proverbs 19:16, we saw the importance of keeping “the commandment.” As we saw, that refers to Deuteronomy 6:5 and loving the Lord God with all our heart, soul, and might. The next verse after that, Deuteronomy 6:6, commands Israel to keep these words on their own hearts. Then Deuteronomy 6:7 immediately commands diligently and continuously teaching God’s Word to their children—when you sit in your house, walk by the way, lie down, and when you rise up. Thus these proverbs follows the exact pattern of Deuteronomy 6 with commanding loving God and then making sure to teach that to our children. Discipline, correction, and chastening our children in the commands, truths, and wisdom of God is essential for their lives. This includes both positive instruction and negative reinforcement. It is extremely important in life to learn that there are consequences for disobedience and other sin. If we do not teach this, we are desiring and working towards their death. We are actually teaching them the lie that sin can be gotten away with if they just find the right way. In real life that generally does not work, and with God it definitely does not.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture we see a number of examples of this with David’s lack of discipline for his children. Solomon had a front row picture of the reality of this proverb. Maybe that is why he emphasizes it so strongly here. In 2 Samuel 13-18 we see that David had not disciplined his firstborn son Amnon for his rape of Tamar. He likewise had not really disciplined Absalom for in turn murdering Amnon. That in turn led to Absalom’s coup, civil war in Israel, and ultimately Absalom’s death. In addition to all that, 1 Kings 1:6 mentions that David had never crossed another son of his, Adonijah, or questioned him for his behavior. Thus when he wanted the throne of David as he got old and feeble, Adonijah gathered some supporters and proclaimed himself king. It did not matter that he was not anointed by God as king, that David had not anointed him as king, that David was not yet dead, or that Solomon had been promised the kingship. He had not been disciplined and learned that those things simply could not be done. Ultimately it led to his death.

As parents, the things that we do and do not do make a big difference in the lives of our children. They make a big difference on whether we find good in our relationships and even whether our children do. We need to teach them about loving God more than anything else. We need to teach them about holding onto God’s Word and commands in their hearts. We need to teach them the consequences of disobedience. We need to show them the reality of life in God’s world with the consequences of actions. We need to model it before them with righteous, holy lives which honestly love God more than anything else. Just as we considered in our last lesson, we need to ask ourselves the hard questions. Is my main focus in life serving God, or myself? Am I faithful in my church involvements, in my giving, in my daily time in reading and studying God’s Word, in prayer, in singing and praising God, in listening to and dwelling on praiseworthy messages and music, in sharing my faith with others, in meeting with other believers to disciple them and to be discipled, etc.?

This is not just something for Sunday morning or Wednesday night. These are things we need to be doing 24/7 and will want to be doing if we love God. Likewise it is something we need to be teaching and correcting our children about 24/7. Are you desiring the death of your children, or are you loving them by disciplining, guiding, and instructing them?

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture, we see that this same kind of discipline is what God Himself does for us because He loves us. God expects it and God models it. We saw this back in Proverbs 3:11-12.

Proverbs 3:11-12 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD Or loathe His reproof, 12 For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Hebrews 12 quotes this proverb in Hebrews 12:5-6, but then it goes beyond that with the correlating warning that if we do not receive discipline from Him we are not true children of God (Hebrews 12:8). He also tells us the perfect, good purpose that God has in this discipline.

Hebrews 12:10-11 For they [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. [brackets comment added for clarity]

God is disciplining us for our good. He is working to make us holy. He is working to produce in us the peaceful fruit of righteousness. That is infinitely better than allowing us to destroy our lives through sin by neglecting to discipline us.

Truth in Connection: As we connect this to our lives we see that we must love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and might. We must likewise teach our children the value and importance of loving Him. We must teach them of God’s righteous standards, of our sin, of the destruction sin brings, and of the redemption that is in Jesus alone. If we love God and love our children we will be faithful to discipline them while there is still chance of them learning. If we do not, we are encouraging them towards and consigning them to death. If we would want what is good and best in our relationships with our children we must discipline them in love. It is for their good like God’s discipline is for us.

Our next verse broadens these truths of discipline beyond just the parent-child relationship.

19 A man of great anger will bear the penalty, For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

Those with sinful patterns of life need to learn from the hard disciplining consequences of their own actions. Otherwise we will have to continually rescue them from their actions.

Sinful, ingrained, personal behaviors—like anger—all have consequences. Anger that is continually expressed causes strife and ruins relationships. It makes enemies out of people. It turns bad situations into worse ones. It puts one into situations where violence is likely and where the response of others can be violent. If we rescue someone out of that they will not learn from their inappropriate, wrong, dangerous behavior. They will only do it again. They will think they can get their way and get away with that behavior because we rescued them out of it. We will constantly need to be on the lookout to bail them out. Instead of all that, we need to let them bear the penalty of their actions and learn from consequences.

This goes for many other such behaviors. People commit small crimes and seem to get away with them when they are quickly bailed out and only receive a small slap on the wrist from the judge. That leads them to think they can safely continue to get away with their wrong behaviors as they pursue doing whatever they need to do to get what they want. This often occurs with the pursuit of illegal drugs and other illicit behavior. Caution, common sense, and wisdom is all thrown away in their wicked, idolatrous pursuit of drugs, alcohol, or immorality. If people are rescued out of that headlong pursuit it will only have to be done again. They will not learn. This will not produce good in our relationships. This will not teach them or help them change. Instead, we are to let the actual consequences come. Then we are to pray that the discipline of that reality will help them see the truth and turn them to God.

This is not easy to do. From one perspective it is counter-intuitive. Let someone experience pain in order to find good? Yet, when they do not want to see, believe, and follow the truth, or when the appeal of sin is so strong there is not much else that will clear the fog of those lies then the discipline of truth and reality is absolutely needed. It is one thing to rescue someone who is teachable, wants to do what is right, and actually listens to correction. It is another thing when something is a pattern of their life which they do not change. In these cases, we must be careful to not get in the way of God’s discipline and instruction. We must not stop consequences from having their opportunity to break through and teach them.

We ought to continually point people to the truths about sin, judgment, and redemption in Jesus Christ. We ought to try to persuade them of the truth. But ultimately, we cannot change people’s hearts. Only God can. Thus we need to entrust them to God’s discipline. Meanwhile we can pray that it brings them to repentance, to salvation, or to their senses before it is too late.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture we see a negative example of this in the life of David’s chief general and nephew Joab. He was a violent man who bent the laws of retribution and war to personally kill Abner and Amasa. David condemned him, but did not really do anything about it. Joab was also complicit in Uriah the Hittite’s murder, and personally killed Absalom despite David’s direct order. He kept getting away with his anger and violence, so he persisted. He did not learn from simple rebukes. He needed discipline. Eventually he went too far and supported Adonijah in his wrongful attempt to become king when David was old. Justice finally arrived and Solomon had him put to death. If only he had been disciplined earlier on in life, learned to control his anger and willfulness, or otherwise learned the dangerous consequences of violent, angry behavior. But he did not, and reaped the consequences.

On the other side of things, David sinned greatly with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah the Hittite. He probably went about a year before repenting. It was finally when Nathan’s rebuke and the consequences of his actions caught up to him that he learned, changed, and repented. The direct rebuke of God and the death of his baby hit him hard. Sometimes it takes consequences to catch our attention, cause us to learn, and really learn to come back to God.

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture we see this principle being applied in the church with church discipline. In those cases where people remain in their sin and are thus not truly repentant, we are to stop helping them. We are to stop associating with them. We turn them over to God’s judgment. We see God’s process for doing this in Matthew 18:15-17.

Matthew 18:15-17 “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. 16 “But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. 17 “If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

1 Corinthians 5 shows an example of this kind of thing being carried out in the church with the man who was persisting in immorality in Corinth. Paul declared in 1 Corinthians 5:5 that this person was to be delivered over “to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” The goal was for his restoration by learning from God’s judgment of him.

Later on in the chapter Paul clarified exactly what our relationship to these kinds of people is to be. We are not to be involved with them at all (other than calling them to repentance).

1 Corinthians 5:11-13 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.

These commands did not apply to unbelievers outside the church, but this is how we are supposed to treat someone who has been a “so-called brother” who persists in sin. It may be hard for us to discern whether someone truly is a believer, but if they have been a member among us or called themselves a believer then we are to treat them in this way. We are to remove ourselves from contact with them so that we do not become involved with their sin (1 Cor. 5:6-7). We are to deliver them over to God’s discipline. We are not to get in the way of God carrying it out by helping them when hardships come. We are to wait until genuine repentance—which is Zacchaeus-like, doing whatever possibly can be done to deal with and compensate for one’s sins. When that occurs we are to restore them and welcome them back among us as 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 says. But until that point we must let them bear the consequences of their actions.

Truth in Connection: As we connect this proverb to our lives, we need to be careful about rescuing people from the disciplining consequences of their sins. If we go ahead and rescue them, we will be getting in the way of God’s natural methods of correction. When they are rescued from their habitual sins people do not generally learn. They continue carrying out their sinful, destructive behaviors because their rescue reinforces the belief that somehow they are an exception to consequences.

If we want good in our relationships with angry people, or with others who have different persistent, sinful behavior, then we must step back and allow God’s discipline or “natural consequences” to correct them. In the same way that we are responsible to correct and discipline our children if we want good for them, we must also allow others to receive God’s discipline for their ongoing bad behavior.

The principle that God has set in place for life is that a man reaps what he sows.

Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

For the unbeliever, the truth that they need to realize here is that the consequences, the wages, the result of their sin against God is death, as Romans 6:23 says. This is why all people die. This is why we are separated from God. This is why His originally good creation is full of thorns, thistles, hardships, sorrows, and disasters. This is why people are so selfish and evil to one another with war, murder, rape, lying, and stealing. We are reaping what we have sown in our rebellion against God: death.

After our physical death an eternal judgment comes where we will stand before God and reap the full consequences of what we deserve. We will be separated from God eternally in the lake of fire: eternal death. This is separation from the source of all life, God. May the reality of these truths and the consequences of our actions that we see and feel around us be enough to call us to repentance. May we all come to God for forgiveness, for rescue, for cleansing, and to be born again into His eternal life. It is what we all need and yet what none of us can earn, deserve, or get by our efforts. Thanks be to God that He loved us so much, despite being His enemies (as Romans 5 says), that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

Jesus came to earth to live perfectly and then voluntarily give His life to bear the punishment of God that we all justly deserve. Thus He died on the cross for our sins. Then He rose again, conquering sin and death. Now He gives His eternal life and His righteousness to all those who repent, trusting in Him as their Lord and Savior. In this way, although “the wages of sin is death” we now receive “the gift of God” which “is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Is Jesus your Lord and Savior? If not, please look closely at the consequences of sin around you. Look closely at the consequences of sin that you have personally experienced. Let it push you to stop pursuing your sinful way of life. Let it push you to turn to Christ and surrender to Him. Trust Him today. Let God’s discipline on this world and on your life be the loving tool that it was designed to be to lead you to Him.

As for those of us who have trusted in Jesus as our Lord and Savior, let us remember our first love that we had when we first believed. Let us daily return to it. Let us faithfully and joyfully serve Him. Let us see the hardships of life as God’s tools to bring us closer to Him, to sanctify and make us holy, and to be used to help call others to His amazing love and forgiveness.

If we have begun to forget what we have been saved from or what God’s purpose for our lives is, then we ought to remember what Colossians 3:23-25 tells us.

Colossians 3:23-25 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

Amazingly enough, in addition to saving us from our sin and adopting us as His children God will reward all that we do when we do it for Him. What an encouragement to stay focused, to remember His goodness and love, and to serve Him wholeheartedly!

Yet, knowing the deceitfulness of sin, and our own hearts, there is also a warning there. God will not overlook the sin of His children. May we have a godly fear of God’s discipline and a hatred of sin. May we not toy with sin but rather realize its destructive reality. Paul reiterates this two sided reality of our relationship to God as His children in 2 Corinthians 5:9-10.

2 Corinthians 5:9-10 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

May we be able to honestly say like Paul that we have as our ambition to please God regardless of whether that is through the daily activities of this life or through our death. May we be ones who receive God’s reward. May we follow the pattern God has set and as parents lovingly carry out the good purposes of discipline with our children. May we see God’s purposes in discipline in our lives and learn from it. May we not get in the way of those purposes in the lives of others, but rather work with them for the good God is working out.

Conclusion

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