Suffering, trials, temptation, spiritual depression, evil of all sorts (he does not glory in evil, though he can use it for his glory and our good), are all used by God in our lives not for judgment, but for our good. In his wisdom he is able to bring us closer to him by using all things for our good. If we sin we are not subject to the wrath of God. "Where sin abounded grace much more abounded." We are his children and not despised objects that are subject to his judgment.
Just as I discipline my children he disciplines his. In fact this is where we get the model of discipline from. Do we not sometimes distance ourselves when we are angry at our children, bring forth the rod, take away comforts, let them suffer the consequences for their actions etc.? But we do not use discipline as a means of unqualified wrath! We use discipline to mature them.We know that it is for their on good.
While our discipline is not perfect God's is, and we know we are loved by him because of his discipline. Despise it not (Heb. 12:5). "...whatever he allows to happen to us he brings about in the interist of our salvation" (a Kempis bk. ii).
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