This passage provides further comfort to suffering saints by providing assurance that the pactum salutis, God’s eternal plan of redemption, and all that arises from that plan, including the sanctifying trials of life, are for the sake of those of us who are...
We are commanded to not despise God’s discipline and to not despair under God’s discipline. These are two extremes we should avoid in our responses to God’s loving discipline. We look at four ways that believers despair under discipline. An...