WOODSHED OF LOVE
Proverbs 3: 11, 12
“My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.”
Years ago when I was a young boy, if I ever misbehaved I would be threatened with or taken to the woodshed to be disciplined. Today if you were to use the term woodshed not many people would know what you were talking about. Most people today don't know what a wood shed is. When the houses used pot bell stoves or to heat the house the wood would be stored inside so it wouldn't get wet. The area where the wood was stacked was called the woodshed.
Today the question would be asked “Why did your parents take you out to the woodshed when you did something wrong”? The answer is “They took me out there to punish me when I disobeyed them”.
There are times when we do things that displease Jesus and that makes Him unhappy with us and He has to take us out to His woodshed. But His woodshed is different because He never whips us or yells at us. (Prov 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: Prov 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.) He tells us in a firm but gentle voice what we are doing wrong and what He wants us to do to correct it.
I think if we will listen with our hearts to what He is saying to everyone who claims to be a Christian “Why don’t you believe Me? I have told you that I am coming back and to be ready, yet you focus more on material things than on me”. We read in the Bible (Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.)
If we really believed He is coming back at any minute (Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 1Thes 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.) we would never worry about schedules, time, jobs or anything else. We would be in a constant state of joy and expectation. May God forgive us for doubting what Jesus has told us!
Are you ready to go should He come back while you are reading this? Have you asked Him to forgive you, come into your heart and be your personal Saviour? If not, please do it now before it’s too late!