Whom the Lord loves He chastens. When people are struggling to follow Him they may not feel chastened or He may have limited reason to chasten them. When they are beginning to go astray He will chasten them and while they may feel threatened or unloved by this it is a clear sign that He cares. They should be vary wary when He stops chastening them in their wickedness because that indicates that he has at least temporarily left them to the tutelage of a less forgiving teacher—experience in the classroom of hard knocks.
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