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Martin Collins, recounting a story about how he used reverse psychology on his daughter to get her to eat green beans, focuses on Hebrews 12 and the admonition to endure chastening and discipline from our Heavenly Father in order to ultimately attain holiness. If we endure chastisement and discipline from God, we prove we are His children. Sanctification is an incremental process, requiring some trials and chastisement, slowly and methodically developing spiritual maturity. Chastisement could come about by illness, financial losses, anxiety and confusion, or some other pressing problem. In all trials, the spiritual objective transcends the physical objective in God's perspective. We dare not despise God's chastisement, ignoring or shrugging it off as something light, nor should we become discouraged, feeling hopeless and dejected. We need to learn to wait on the Lord, realizing that God will provide the missing strength. In enduring trials, we must fight against the root of bitterness. Enduring chastisement takes a mature adult attitude rather than immature attitude as exemplified by sulking like a child. We must willingly submit or subject ourselves to our Heavenly Father as we would our physical parents. God places us in a kind of spiritual gymnasium or fitness center, toning up the flexibility, rhythm and symmetry of our bodies, making them energy efficient and resistant to joint and ligament malfunction. The unexercised or sedentary body is most vulnerable to injuries and impending death. We must listen to our Spiritual Trainer; yielding to His regimen of exercise, realizing that the more we move, the better we will feel, having attained peace, well-being, and the peaceable fruit of righteousness in the process.

Adult attitude Advice Anxiety Bitterness Chastening Chastisement Confession Discipline process Energizer Exercise Fitness center Forgiveness of sin Fresh feathers Fruits of righteousness Green beans episode Gymnasium Hebrews 12 Holy Spirit Humility Lay aside every weight Physical affliction Pride Rebuke Root of bitterness Sanctification as a process Sanctification Sons of God Spiritual fitness center Spiritual gymnasium Stacey Symmetry Stiffness Straight road Trials and tribulation Wings like eagles Word of exhortation

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