Lamentations 2:14
Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity so as to restore you from captivity, but they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.
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It is human nature, or I should say fallen human nature, to want to only hear ‘nice things’. And that is surely why the people of God in the time of Isaiah, who were rebellious as usual, would say to the seers and to the prophets, you must not prophesy to us what is right, speak to us pleasant words, prophesy illusions.' {Is.30:10} And Jeremiah in today’s verse certainly reinforces that truth!
 
Sometime later that same attitude, still alive and thriving all too often even now, would raise its ugly head again as the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” {2Tim.4:3-4}

And certainly you will have noticed that, as a rule, children do not like to be disciplined. A mature Christian should know from the Word that the Lord disciplines (would you be more comfortable if I said ‘disciples') those whom He loves! {Heb.12:6}.

King David, a man after God's own heart actually prayed seeking discipline! “Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me; It is oil upon the head; Do not let my head refuse it...” {Ps.141:5} His entire Word—all scripture—is God breathed (GR. “theopneustos”) and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness that the people of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. {2Tim.3:16-17}

God’s discipline, that training in righteousness, has a most wonderful purpose: Our Father is in the process of accomplishing His promise to conform us into the image of His son, Jesus. {Rom.8:29} Oh yes, remember that Jesus endured the cross for the joy set before Him. {Heb.12:2} It is all about our destination!
 
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
    For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.” (Hebrews 12:8-10)
 
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