“Ouch! The Hickory Switch of the Father”
Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. (Hebrews 12:5)
I love stories! The stories I appreciate most are the ones sealed in the past and told through the memories of the men and women who lived them. My grandmother, on my mother’s side, also shared her fair share of stories and most of them revolved around raising eight children in post depression rural Alabama. My grandfather, like most men of that generation, was the sole provider for his family and so he was exempt from the draft. But his exemption from the war did not mean he was exempt from hard work. From sun up to sun down he worked tirelessly providing for his family and for the people in the surrounding communities. The other “war” was the one on the home and the thankless job of making sure unruly kids were well fed, well behaved, dressed, in church, working or in school. Of course children will be children and when children step out of line it is the parent’s responsibility to bring order to the brewing chaos. By grandmother called it “getting her hickory switch” and the Father knows, at times, we too need a hickory switch to bring us back into His order.
Oswald Chambers said, “It is very easy to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the chastening of the Lord, by fainting when we are rebuked by Him. If we have only a shallow experience of sanctification, we mistake the shadow for the reality, and when the Spirit of God begins to check, we say—‘Oh, that must be the devil.’”
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“Nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him.” As I continue to parent I find myself increasingly saying, “No excuses.” Likewise we need to stop offering God our excuses of why we chose not follow His prompting or be led by His Spirit. For those who make excuses (and I been there before) we find ourselves saying—‘Oh well, I can’t help it; I did pray and things did not turn out right, and I am going to give it all up.’ Think what would happen if we spoke such defeat into any other part of our life? Are you prepared to let God grip you through the Holy Spirit and do a work in you that is worthy of Himself?
“Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.” (Chambers)
Blessings – JOSHUA