I find it interesting that many Christians are all atwitter when they are complimented and praised, but become angry, using covert tactics of meanness when they have been corrected.
Doesn't it seem strange that often mankind will take the good stuff but refuse to use the correction as an opportunity to make a change in their hearts?
If mankind could see correction as a good thing the way they see praise and flattery, there would be far more people improving in their attitude and behavior.
Job 2:9-10
"…9 Then Job's wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10“ You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."
Everything that we encounter including correction or rebuke is for our own good. When someone spurns those who bring correction they are missing an opportunity to grow in holiness.
Happiness is not the goal of the born again believer, holiness is the goal. When we see spiritual growth as the goal of everything we can embrace a challenge for improvement. We can embrace an opportunity to confess what is wrong to go on to embrace what is better.
Those who resist and rage against correction will never grow but in fact they regress. What they had will be taken from them because of their own stubbornness.
Matthew 25:29-30 "29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 30 And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’…"
The passage in Matthew is speaking of servants who did not grow the treasure that was given to them. And, those who did not grow but even wasted and refused to be diligent in their gifts will regress. The implication here is that those who are stubborn and lazy about their spirituality will be those who have not trusted Christ but wanted to do things the easy way, their own way.
If you have another perspective on this passage I would like to hear it
