Discipline

About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him. Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome. [1 Kings 1.5-6]

Discipline is never pleasant. It is neither pleasant for the administrator nor the recipient. Discipline, for the administrator, is an act of love while, for the recipient is an act of justice. 

Or, perhaps it should be considered like this: from the perspective of the recipient of discipline, it appears as justice, but from the perspective of the administrator of discipline it appears as love.

Hmm. That actually makes sense.

Father, help us all to see that discipline, while only one thing, is viewed  is viewed differently by the administrator and the recipient.