DISCIPLINE 4

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Discipline is the key to life’s puzzling intricacies, there are times we come across issues that proves stubborn and hard to crack but with proper and well organized manner of approach, things will normalize as expected. We don’t dabble into nonsense because of jealousy of unknown sector. If you are jealous towards some extra ordinary favour that God has given someone, you may not get such a favour in your own life. Life is full of wonders only to those that believe and know the God they serve by faith.

Apart from faith discipline is another key that distinguish a personality. Now what is discipline? The word discipline is generated from discipleship; it has to do with followership and fellowship. These are keys to becoming a leader, for one to be a good leader, he has to understand the word discipleship which comprises how to interact with a group (fellowship) and secondly how to follow your leader (followership). With proper followership and fellowship discipline is achieved which produces good result in the long run known as wisdom; because knowledge is acquired by followership and fellowship which produces result.

In Education sector, a student cannot pass his exams without proper following his lecturer’s directives as well as interaction with his/her fellow students to know what is required of them. The one that took first is different from others because of his/her strict adherent to latter letter of his/her lecturers and that is called discipline which are steps to Excellency in life and ministry.

On other hand discipline also means to correct one with rod of punishment, this can be achieved through imprisonment, but for a child. It means to use some punishment measure like beating, flogging with cane and using word of advise to scold a child. This is to curb foolishness and ignorant from the child.

PROVERB 19:18

(18)      “Discipline your son while there is hope

            And do not become responsible for his death

When you don’t use punishment measure on a growing child, the child will grow wild and you as his/her parents must bear consequences in the long run because you neglected that child. In the same manner God treats us.

HEBREW 12:6

(6)        “For those whom Jehovah loves he disciplines, in fact,

he scourges everyone whom he receives as son”

It is discipline that distinguish a personality in the society, it will as well preserve your life because it is void of violence.

PROVERB 4:13

(1)               “Hold unto discipline, do not let it go

Safeguard it, it means your life”

Your future is tied to how you discipline yourself and how others discipline you. When you are void of discipline, it affects your future, because you lack the necessary experience to build a great future. A great future is a product of discipline.

PROVERB 19:20

(20)      “Listen to counsel and accept discipline

            In order to become wise in your future”

Your future is not far from your experience, but it takes discipline to bring it together. Remain blessed.