How do you respond to discipline? Hosea 1-7

Hosea 6:1-2 (NASBStr)

 “ Come, let us return to the Lord.

For He has torn us, but He will heal us;

He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

 “He will revive us after two days;

He will raise us up on the third day,

That we may live before Him.

When God rebukes us, what should our response be to that rebuke?   Discipline from parents was often met with the tears of the child; the slamming of the door; the withdrawn pouting.   As a people we don't handle discipline well.   We tend to reject it and become frustrated in the midst of it.  Proverbs tells us it is a wise person who can handle discipline (Proverbs 15:5,10).   So, how does the nation of Israel, Judah in particular, respond to the discipline prophesied by Hosea?   In the above two verses we see their response.   Repentance is the theme of it, faith the trust of it.   Judah acknowledges that it was God who had bound them and it was God who wounded them.  This captivity is was from God for their disobedience to Him.   That acknowledgement is the key to their future blessing.   When we place the blame for our troubles on misfortunate, bad luck, or chance, we miss the point of both the discipline and the recovery.   God binds us so that He might bond with us.   God wounds us so that He might heal us.   Our affliction gives way to adoption.    The mention of two and three days speaks to Judah's understanding that the discipline of captivity would be brief.   As compared to the history of the nation, it was.  As compared to individuals, not so much.   But, discipline that is from God ought to be handled as though brief.  When we are, by faith, focused on the blessings at the end that are so dynamic, we aren't mindful of the time they take to carry out.   The mention that "He will raise us up on the third day" has obvious figurative and prophetic implications to the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord.  They could rejoice in their afflictions, because even though they were well dead, on the third day they would be resurrected (with Him; in Him) and could rejoice.  Even death was not something that could keep them down, should God so choose to use as the ultimate discipline tool.   God can bandage the scrap, place salve on the wound, and even raise from the dead, should that be the discipline.   So, the Nation's response gives us a pattern of how to respond to discipline in our lives.    God disciplines those He loves (Hebrews 10).  So, rejoice in that love no matter what it looks like and not matter how severe the pain.   God heals the brokenhearted.