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Just keep in mind, just because Elephaz and some of these others give unhelpful counsel at times doesn't mean everything they say is unhelpful or untrue, even sometimes their unhelpful counsel is actually true.

It's just not the right time or not setting the right way or not applied in the correct way.

So anyway, we'll get to that as we get to different verses, but here in Job chapter 5, Elephaz says, blessed is the one whom God reprudes.

Therefore, don't despise the discipline of the Almighty. This is Hebrews 12.

We God loves those whom He disciplines. We know this, anyone who's a parent or a child, like assuming there is loving, disciplining, happening in that relationship, that's a good thing.

It gets good for my kids to be disciplined if they run out in the road and the car is coming. They need to learn that's not good for you.

It's a blessing to receive discipline in that way. That's the whole picture here in Job 5, 17, despise not the discipline of the Almighty. He disciplines those whom He loves. That's why it's a blessing to be disciplined by God.

Then verse 18, isn't this beautiful? It says He wounds, but He binds up. He shatters, but His hands heal.

At the end of God's discipline, it's not our wounding or our shattering.

The end of God's discipline, His good loving discipline in our lives, is His binding us up and His healing in our hearts that we need.

We can only experience through His loving discipline.

It's so we pray, God, to help us to receive your discipline in our lives.

Lord, do whatever you desire to do in our lives, to draw us closer to yourself, to make us look more like Jesus, to enable us to experience life according to your good design for us.

God, even as I pray that, I realize I don't know the implications when I'm praying for my own life.

Much less for all people who are listening to this. None of us know what could happen if we say God will take whatever discipline you want in our lives, to make us holy and accomplish your purposes in the world.

But we say that. God, we say that to you, knowing you are a loving father, who will always do what is good for those who love Him, who will work all things together for the good of those who love Him, and who are called according to your purpose.

Because we know that you are the loving father who is good and will always work everything for good.

For those who love you and are called according to your purpose, we want your purposes to be accomplished in our lives.

We want your purposes to be accomplished in the world. So we say yes to your discipline, help us to humble ourselves under it.

Whatever that may mean in the age of our lives and the trust, that when we are wounded, you will bind us up with your own hands, that when we are shattered, your hands will heal us.

Well, God, we praise you. Thank you for your discipline in our lives. We pray that it would have its full effect.

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