Moments with my First Love [UNDER REVISION]

MOMENT 26: Correction

[ A/N: ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CHAPTER IS PLACED AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT AFTER THE FILIPINO VERSION. :) ]

Ang taong busog ay tatanggi kahit sa pulot-pukyutan, ngunit sa taong gutom, matamis kahit ang ampalaya. -Mga kawikaan 27:7

Dalawang uri ng tao kapag itinatama ng Diyos:

1. Taong busog
- siya ang taong tumatanggi o hindi tumatanggap ng pagtatama

Yung pulot-pukyutan ay 'yong rebuke na idinadaan na nga sa maganda at magaan na salita o paliwanag para less offensive pero 'di pa rin ito tinatanggap ng taong busog.

Ang mga taong hindi tumatanggap ng pagtatama ay ang mga taong busog o mga taong puno sa kanilang sarili o puno ng kamunduhan.

God's Spirit cannot dwell on a jar that is full. In order to experience fullness of God, we must empty ourselves first.

2. Taong gutom
- siya ang taong tumatanggap ng rebuke o pagtatama kahit alam niyang masakit o mapait ito.

Ang rebuke ay parang ampalaya na mapait ng damdamin at halos hindi gusto ng karamihan ngunit tinitignan ng taong gutom bilang nutrisyon para sa kaniyang paglago. Ang mapait na pagtatama ay maituturing pa rin na matamis para sa kanya.

Kapag pinapakita sa atin ng Diyos ang ating mga pagkakamali at tayo'y tinutuwid Niya, dapat tayong maging taong gutom sa Kanyang pagtatama upang matanggap natin ang mga ito.

Aking anak, ang saway ni Yahweh ay huwag mamaliitin, at ang Kanyang pagtutuwid at huwag mong itakwil, pagkat lahat ng mahal Niya'y itinatama ng daan, tulad ng anak na minamahal, sinasaway ng magulang. -Mga kawikaan 3:11-12

Correction is for your own good. Rebuke is your happy hour :)

Shalom!
Glory to God alone! :)

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REBUKE/CORRECTION

One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. -Proverbs 27:7

There are two kinds of people when being corrected by God:

1. FULL PERSON (full as in full in food)
This is a kind of person that refuses the corretion of God. You see, someone  that is already full with food in his stomach can no longer eat or accept food for his body. That's also how a person who is so full of himself and so full of worldliness can no longer accept God's correction.

The honey mentioned in the verse refers to the rebuke or correction of God in a form of sweet or simple words to be less offensive. But this is still being refused by a person who is full.

God's Spirit cannot dwell on a jar that is full. In order to experience fullness of God, we must empty ourselves first.

2. Hungry person
- this is a kind of person that accepts God's correction even if he knows that it is to hard or hurtful to bear.

The bitter mentioned in the verse refers to the bitter or hurtful words from God in order to correct a person. But a person who is hungry for correction sees it as nutrition of his spirit and faith. Even the hurtful correction of God is like a sweet honey for him.

When God is making us see our sins, we must be like a hungry person and delighful to accept his rebukes or corrections because it is for our own good.

My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. -Proverbs 3:11-12

Correction is for your own good.
Rebuke is your happy hour :)

Shalom!
Glory to God alone! :)