The God Who Changes Us: God Disciplines Us For Our Good | Jared Davis

This powerful teaching confronts us with a difficult but transformative truth: God's discipline in our lives is not punishment, but parenting. Drawing from Hebrews 12, we're invited to reconsider our entire relationship with pain, correction, and adversity. The message challenges our modern tendency to avoid all discomfort and protect ourselves and our children from every negative experience. Yet Scripture reveals that God uses adverse circumstances redemptively—not to make us pay, but to make us mature. Like a refiner's fire that brings impurities to the surface of gold, God's testing reveals what's in our hearts so we can surrender it to Him. The distinction is crucial: the enemy tempts to destroy us, but God tests to reveal us. The enemy steals from us, but God prunes us for new growth. When we find ourselves in wilderness seasons, facing self-induced consequences, or under spiritual attack, we're called to shift our posture from 'Why is this happening?' to 'God, what are You doing?' This reframe opens us to receive the wisdom, conviction, and character transformation that difficulty can produce. The harvest of righteousness and peace comes later—for those who have been trained by discipline.