When we obey God’s law, we will be most free to live as He has created us to live. To live disobeying Him only messes up our lives, maybe not immediately, but eventually. Our culture thinks freedom means doing whatever you please, but this leads to lawlessness.

We think of discipline in different ways.

Negatively, we may think of discipline as consequences for having done something wrong.

Yet even then it can have a positive outcome, when we learn something good from it.

Positively, we think of discipline as something like exercising self-control to do something constructive.

If I discipline myself to eat healthy and exercise, I will enjoy life more.

I will enjoy the freedom of good health rather than being ill, slowed down, under effects of medication, etc.

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