God Will Discipline - Jeremiah 27-31

Jeremiah 30:11 (ESV)

For I am with you to save you,

declares the LORD;

I will make a full end of all the nations

among whom I scattered you,

but of you I will not make a full end.

I will discipline you in just measure,

and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Jeremiah was sent to convey the message from God that God was not pleased with Israel and that their running after lovers to worship was coming to an end.  He was about to discipline them and cause them to come to their knees in repentance.   In the above verse we read the parameters of His discipline.    

1. He is going to use other nations, but they will not last.  
2. He is going to discipline them, but it will not be the end of them. 
3. His discipline will be in His control and it will be measured.
4. His discipline will be measured, but it will come.  He will not leave them unpunished. 

1. His discipline is in the form of punishment.  

God disciplines them because He loves them.  They will not like it, but it flows from God’s love for them.   Note what the New Testament says about this thought:

Hebrews 12:5-11 (ESV)

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

nor be weary when reproved by him.

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,

and chastises every son whom he receives.”

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

God uses His discipline to correct us, yes.  But He does so out or pure love.   We can understand it because we discipline our own children.   We should do so out of love, not anger.   We don’t.   God does.   We know we are His children because He brings loving discipline into our lives.