Chastening as Sacred Endurance

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, you have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as to children: the Father’s chastening is love in action within your state of consciousness. Do not resist it as if it came from outside you; see it as the gentle correction of your inner belief that you are separate from your God-state. What you call events of discipline are movements of your own I AM awakening, a sign that you are being brought into conformity with your true nature. The Lord’s love is not punitive but protective, aligning your desires with holiness so you may partake of Its holy character. If you endure the chastening, you participate in the Father of spirits; without it, you remain in a lesser sense of self. The fleshly past may chasten us for a few days, but it is the Spirit’s training for your profit, that you might become partakers of His holiness. The present suffering is grievous, yet it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised thereby, and this fruit is your inner peace manifested.