Bumps/Obstacles

On our highway to salvation after accepting his Grace?

There to draw you closer to God.

To Train you. 

To discipline you.

To grow your faith.

To show you that through God anything can be overcome.

Ephesians 4:13-15

"until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Hebrews 12:5-11

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? 

It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,

    and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,

because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,

    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!  They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

From Matthew Henry's commentary on Joel Two.

"and whoever he employs to execute his word, 

as the minister of his justice, 

is sure to be made strong and par negotio—

equal to what he undertakes; 

whom God gives commission to 

he girds with strength for the executing of that commission."

All I can say is.

It's gotta be some kinda commision Lucy :-).