Keep Your Senses When Your Loyalty Is Tested - WHEN WE RECEIVE DISCIPLINE

 Discipline can be emotionally painful. But if we focus only on the pain, we may begin to minimize the discipline, feeling that  it is not justified or that it is too harsh.  As a result, we may miss out on something special-seeing the discipline as an expression of Jehovah's love for us. (Read Hebrews 12:5, 6, 11.) And if we allow our emotions to control us, we give Satan an opportunity to exploit our feelings.  He want us to reject  the discipline, and even worse, distance ourselves from Jehovah and from the congregation. If  you have been disciplined, how can you keep your senses?

Accept discipline, and make needed adjustments.  More than once, Jesus corrected Peter in front of the other apostles.  (Mark 8:33; Luke 22:31-34) What a humbling experience!  However, Peter remained loyal to  Jesus. He accepted the discipline and learned from his mistakes.  Consequently, Jehovah rewarded Peter's loyal and assigned him weighty responsibilities in the congregation.  (John 21:15-17; Acts 10:24-33; 1 Peter 1:1) What can we learn from Peter's example?  We benefit ourselves and others when we see beyond the embarrassment of the discipline, accept the correction, and make the needed adjustments.  When we do so, we become even more useful to Jehovah and to our brothers.

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