How God’s Discipline Shapes Our Faith

Enduring faith does not grow by accident. In this episode, Pastor Chris explores Hebrews 12:5–11 and shows how God’s discipline is not punishment, but loving coaching from a perfect Father. Using the imagery of athletic training and the Winter Olympics, this message helps listeners understand how God shapes His children through correction, perseverance, and trust so they can live holy and fruitful lives. 

Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2285086/episodes/18528866

Key Points:

1. God disciplines like a good coach, not an angry judge
    Hebrews 12:5-6 shows that God’s correction flows from love, not rejection. Just as a coach understands an athlete’s strengths and weaknesses, God knows how He has formed us and trains us accordingly.
2. Discipline is proof of sonship, not abandonment
    Believers are disciplined because they belong to God. Through adoption in Christ, we become sons and daughters who are cared for, corrected, and shaped by a loving Father. Scripture reminds us that discipline confirms our identity, not our failure.
3. God uses discipline to remove misplaced priorities
    Through pruning, hardship, or redirected paths, God trains His people to let go of idols and focus on what produces lasting fruit. Discipline often reveals what we depend on and teaches us to trust God more deeply.
4. Present pain produces lasting gain
    Though discipline can be painful, it yields righteousness, peace, and endurance. God uses seasons of difficulty to prepare us for future ministry, leadership, and faithfulness.

Personal Stories from Pastor Chris:
 Pastor Chris shares stories from athletics, early Christian growth through Christian radio and teaching, and personal experiences where God used discipline and redirection to prepare him for ministry, endurance, and long-term faithfulness.

Notable Quotes:
 God disciplines us because He loves us, not because He is finished with us.
 Discipline is training for holiness, not punishment for failure.
 God’s correction is always preparing us for what lies ahead.

Actionable Takeaways:

Reflect on how you respond when God corrects your path
 Ask where God may be training you rather than punishing you
 Trust that current hardship may be preparation for future fruit
 Choose obedience and humility when God invites change

Scripture References:
 Hebrews 12:5-11
 Proverbs 3:11-12
 John 1:12
 Romans 8:15
 Romans 10:9-10
 Galatians 4:4-7
 1 John 5:11-13
 John 15:1-2
 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
 Revelation 3:19

Keywords:
 God’s discipline
 Enduring faith
 Hebrews 12
 Spiritual growth
 Christian perseverance
 God as Father
 Biblical discipleship
 Faith under pressure

Challenge:
 Ask God this week to help you see His discipline not as something to resist, but as loving coaching meant to strengthen your faith and shape your future.

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Transcript

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Continuing on with my winter Olympics theme. So for this month, talk about the pre-training preparation for the Olympics, and then actually next month when the Olympics start, we'll talk about being a champion for Christ. And maybe we'll even see a few champions that are worth recognizing. Maybe we'll find some Christian athletes who are glorifying God with the gift that they have, the skills that they have. But to value God's coaching for enduring faith. Hebrews chapter 12. So a heavenly father who disciplines us is kind of like a coach. Kind of like a coach. So I'm just curious, show of hands, if you ever had a coach involved in your life, maybe in school or anything. Anyone ever had any kind of coach at all for any kind of sport? So nowadays they have life coaches, they have business coaches, they have preaching coaches. You can get a coach to help you lead in just about anything. So to find a coach that you respect and that you like is one of the difficulties to be a coach. Trying to find out, you know, how you're wired and how they can assist you. Use the gifts and the personality and the things that you are to be better. That I think makes a good coach. And I think that's what God does for us is that God knows how we're formed, God knows how we're made, and so he, through the power of the Holy Spirit, works in our life to help us be fully devoted Christ followers, to help us to accomplish the purposes that He's made us for, to help us to do the things that He wants us to do. And sometimes when we cross the line, when we fall into unconfessed sin, when we do things that are not helpful, when they're harmful to us, when it's not helping us to accomplish God's purposes, sometimes He disciplines us. And so that's what we're gonna talk about. A good coach would discipline you. I don't know if you ever had a coach where the team didn't do what they were supposed to do. So what did you have to do? You ran laps, right? Ran laps, yep, yep, ran laps. Why don't you why don't you keep running laps until you figure that one out? Or what else was there? Burpees running stairs, push-ups, all sorts of things like that for sports coaches. But when you find a good coach, it's a great thing. So some things that mark good coaches are, first of all, somebody who loves the sport, loves the game, loves the sport they're coaching. So they study it, they keep learning, they grow in understanding, not of just how the game works, but on how they can help you grow in understanding. And that makes a good coach. Second thing is a coach genuinely cares about the person they're coaching. They want you to succeed. They're not just there to make your life difficult, they're not just there to watch you suffer in pain. Well, not usually anyway. I had a coach one time. I I was in grade in sports. I mentioned before that I graduated when I was 16, and that really messes you up in high school sports, but I think it was ninth grade that I had a coach that was yelling at me, Tyne, get out. We're playing football. Tyane, get out there and hit that guy. It was like, it was like tackling drills. He was a science teacher too. He should have known physics. But he's like, Tyan, get out there and hit that guy. If you're running at the same speed as he is and you hit, you'll both get knocked back the same distance. Well, I think the other guy outweighed me by like 35 pounds. And as soon as he graduated from high school, he went straight to play college football. I mean, he was like one of the first choices to play college football. I hit him as hard as I could and he knocked me back 15 feet like a freight train. And I looked at that coach and I just shook my head. So it's like that was not true at all. I'm not sure if that was for amusement or what. But nonetheless, there are good coaches. Good coaches that care about you, good coaches that want to see you succeed, good coaches that can either speak into your life and help you overcome your fears or things like that, or to help you come up with a training program to make you stronger, or to help you be faster, or all sorts of things. And if you follow their plan, you will be more likely to win. And the third thing is that good coaches are willing to discipline you when you don't do what's right, when you don't follow the plan. Sometimes they'll bench you, sometimes, like I mentioned before, they'll make you run more laps or not give you the opportunity, or maybe you were a starter and because you broke a rule or didn't do something right, you're not starting that game, or you're sitting the bench that game or whatever. But God, God is a divine coach, God is a coach that cares about us. Like a good coach, God is committed to correct us. God is committed to correct us. So I think that if God corrects us and helps us to become better than we would have been if we were left alone, that that is a much bigger sign of his love and his grace in our life than if he just said, Oh, do what you're forgiven, do whatever, it doesn't matter. Because it does matter. And so many times when we figure out that we're doing the wrong thing, or we're told we're doing the wrong thing, and then we're told how to do it right, it can make so much of a difference. For athletes, athletes, sometimes they need their form corrected. Sometimes the coach says, You might not realize this, but if you if you change your stride, if you if you put your feet this way, if you if you move your hips this way, if you increase your upper body strength, or you stop trying to overcorrect this, you will do so much better. And actually what you're doing will be easier, or you'll go farther. I mean, just think of all the different sports in the Winter Olympics. I mean, the speed skaters, the snowboarders, ski jumpers, hockey players, curlers, can't forget the curlers, right? Since we're like got Olympic curler history in this town, but God is committed to coach us. And again, I already read this, but have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses a son? It says, My son, don't make light of the Lord's discipline. Well, what actually the writer of Hebrews is referring to is he is referring to a passage in Proverbs 3.11 that says, My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves. As a father, as the father of the son, he delights him. So they should have been familiar with this passage in Proverbs. And so these people were discouraged, these people were separated from other Christ's followers. Maybe they were being persecuted, maybe their family was talking against them. I mean, following Jesus was a newer thing back then, and many people misunderstood that. And it caused people to be discouraged, and that's why we looked at a little bit of Hebrews chapter 11, but the heroes of the faith chapter that listed all the faithful forefathers of the faith and how they were faithful and how they endured, and so that was part of the encouragement. And now the writer of Hebrews, nobody knows exactly who wrote Hebrews, but the writer of Hebrews is saying, hey, don't forget that God disciplines you. And I think that part of the problem for people is they sometimes feel that when they're undergoing the Lord's discipline, that God has turned their back on them and that God is being mean, that God doesn't care. But that's not it at all. But it says, My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son. So the question isn't, have you earned the right to be disciplined? The question is, are you a son of God? So in biblical language, it doesn't really say, unless you're using a translation that's trying to, you know, be more soft. But literally, when you're adopted as a child of God, you become adopted as a son of God. Whether you're a man or a woman, the the idea is that the son back then received more inheritance, more benefit, had more of an importance back then, so you're just shot straight to the top. And so you are adopted as a child of God, you're adopted as a son. But the question is, is when did you become a son? Did you become a son of God? Are you a son of God? Are you, again, a man or woman of God? But in this passage, do you count? Would God discipline you? John 1 12 says, Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. And so when we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we get adopted into God's family, we become part of his family. He then becomes our heavenly father, and then with that we are able, we are blessed to be disciplined by our Heavenly Father. Romans 10, 9 says, if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it's by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. So have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? I think praying to receive Jesus is a good way to enter into that relationship. Praying is talking to God. And so I never know if someone's watching, someone's listening, someone's here that hasn't received Christ as their Lord and Savior. It'd be really sad if there was somebody here that didn't know Jesus and they go through their life and it's like, well, no, no one ever told me that I need to receive Jesus, that I need to come into a right relationship with Jesus, because when we read through the Bible, we see that Jesus came, lived a perfect life, the Son of God came as a man, and lived a perfect life, and then purposefully went to the cross, died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, rose again from the dead just like he, from the grave, just like he said he would, and gives us an opportunity to exchange our sinfulness for his righteousness and give us new life, to be assured of heaven, to receive the Holy Spirit, to have all of these wonderful things when we're adopted into the family of God. And Romans 8:15 says, the spirit you received does not make you slaves. So when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, when we're truly saved, we receive the Holy Spirit. The spirit you receive does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again. Rather, the spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, Abba Father, the Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. It's really interesting that when you are truly a child of God, the spirit inside you should testify that you are a child of God. There's other things too, like you should have a love for other brothers and sisters in Christ. You should have a desire to follow after the things of God. But the Spirit testifies within me that I'm truly a child of God. And Galatians 4 4 says, when the set about Jesus, when the set time had fully come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption to sonship, because you are his sons. God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out Abba Father. So you are no longer a slave, but God's child. Since you are his child, God has made you an heir. And one of my favorite verses that talks about the assurance of salvation, that talks about who we are in Christ, and if we really are in Christ, is 1 John 5 11 that says, This is the testimony. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. So that confidence, that confidence, that brings it back to when the word says my son, are would that be you? Would you be qualified under that? I already explained. You know, if you're a man or a woman in this thing, the sonship thing is a positional thing. So, but man or woman, are you a man or woman of God? And if so, how so? I would say because I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I don't know, it was like 10th grade or something like that. And all of these things changed in my life. And I know that the Holy Spirit took over and helped me to have a desire for the things of God, to help me to start to understand the things of God, word God's word, and there's answered prayer, and again, the Spirit testifies that I'm truly saved. Is that true with you? Maybe today you could pray something like, Lord Jesus, I want that. Lord, I realize that I'm a sinner that needs to be forgiven, and that you paid the price by going to the cross and conquering death, rising again, offering me a personal relationship with you. Jesus, forgive me of my sin. Come into my life and save me and help me to follow you in Jesus' name. Amen. And if that's you, we've got a How to Find God New Testament out there that we want to give you to help you to start growing in the Christian life, to grow in the faith, to know what you believe. There's lots of notes in there to help you. So many things are so good in that way. But are you a son? I think that when we are in Christ, that we know it, and it makes a difference in our life. And when we are children of God. And then, according to this passage, then when we're children of God, then God is involved in our life and He wants to show us how to live. He wants to show us the things that we're supposed to do. He wants to show us what we can do better so that we can live in victory and accomplish His will, His way. Who doesn't want to live in victory? Who doesn't want to live a life that honors God, one that matters, one that makes an eternal difference? Everybody, I think, truly wants that. Sometimes in the spiritual battle of life, Satan tries to accuse us and try to remind us of our past and tell us we're no good, we can never, we can never find victory. Sometimes we, you know, get hung up in the past. Sometimes we look around and we see people that we think are smarter than us or more godly than us or have more skills than us, or maybe they speak better than us, or just everything about them seems more successful. And we're like, well, you know, why why should I even bother? I could never be that. But that's the thing about God as coach, is he knows how you're formed and he knows what you're good at, and he knows how to fix the things that are messed up, and he knows how to help you succeed in ways that other people won't succeed. Because there are some people that are super good at looking really successful, but they're not as good at making personal relationships or connecting with people or having compassion or doing things that you do. It's just that nobody can see everything that you do because maybe you're not on a platform, maybe because you're humble and you don't tell everybody what you do. Maybe you don't take selfies, put it on your Instagram or whatever about look, I'm helping somebody in need so compassionately smile. Let's take a picture, compassionate person. And, you know, there's people that do that, and everybody's like, oh, you are so good. Yes, like, like, like, like. And other people are like, I'm doing it all the time, but I'm not telling anybody. I figure my reward's with Jesus. And besides that, that's just weird. Why would I even do that? But Jesus cares, Jesus cares, and he wants us to follow. Jesus wants us to follow him. Jesus in Revelation 3.19, believe it to the Church of Laodicea, says, Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline, so be earnest and repent. Wouldn't you want somebody in your life that would come alongside of you and say, You, I just care about you so much. I don't know if you realize it, but you do this, or you're doing this, and this is wrong, or this is perceived wrong. And if you change this or you do this differently, or you don't say that, or did you not know that word means this, or all those different things, that you would be so much better. And you would even thank that person for coming alongside of you and saying, Hey, stop it, hey, do it, hey, have more humility, or hey, quit being so down on yourself, things like that. Have you ever been disciplined in a way by the Lord? There's a difference, by the way, between discipline and punishment. So punishment has more to do with, you know, you you you did something wrong, and so out of out of anger or vengeance or whatever, wicked people are punished. So godly children are disciplined. So personal experience, personal experience in my life. Okay, so this wasn't real harsh or anything, but when I first received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I had been around church stuff for quite a while, and I'd pray all the time to receive Jesus, but I don't think it really stuck. I don't think it really clicked until I was in 10th grade. But as the time went on, it seemed like God really wanted me to listen to the Christian radio station. So we were living in a place, we had moved from Colorado to Marina in the St. Croix, which was a pretty place to be, but I didn't have my own car and I didn't have transportation to church or whatever. And I was pretty much out there by myself and with my parents and whatever. But as far as me trying to live a new Christian life, the only resource I was really getting was the Christian radio. And it just seemed like if I listened to the Christian radio station, that God would bless me, and if I didn't, things would kind of fall apart. And it was like a science experiment because at that time I really didn't like Christian music. It isn't what it is today, where there are so many genres. In my mind, it was lame, it was boring, it was too slow. It's like, ooh, but I wanted to please God, I wanted to serve God, I wanted to be blessed by God. So I chose to just listen, primarily just listen to Christian radio. And it's helped change me. I think you've mentioned this before, but the Christian radio station used to have teaching on at night. There was focus on the family and insight for living with Chuck Swindahl on at like 9 and 9:30, and I listened to those just about every night. And I really think that over the radio, when I first got started in my Christian faith, I was partially discipled by Chuck Swindahl. And God used that whole discipline thing to say, you know, did you notice that when you do this, I bless you in these things, and when you don't, not so much? Have you ever noticed that before when you're doing the things that God wants you to do? That sometimes you're blessed, and when you don't, sometimes you're not. If you are staying home today because you didn't want to come to church because you're trying to get some kind of project done and it's not going very well right now, I would question if that might be the Lord's discipline. So some say that's superstitious. But on the other hand, I really do feel that when God is trying to get you to change a behavior, change a habit, change a preference, that he will bless you and there will be signs that what you're doing is a good thing. So why do people endure discipline? Why do people endure discipline? They endure discipline because they are on God's team. I don't know what sport you played or what you were on, but if you really wanted to be successful, you would do what the coach told you to do. You would make those changes, you would do the things, you know, maybe you even help more. Maybe you would be encouraging to other people because you cared, because you wanted that that spot on the team, because you want, I mean, there are some schools that I went to a really big school for a period of time where everybody that went out to sports got to play. And then I was in another school that, you know, you got cut. And so you couldn't you couldn't play if you weren't good enough. And actually to back it up, because I was really blessed to be forced into team sports when I was in like part of elementary school and junior high. You had to play sports. That was part of the school, is that there were like 200 kids kindergarten through 12th grade, and basically the physical education class was sports. So you played football and you played basketball and you wrestled and you did track. And unless you had a note from your doctor, that's what you did. And I was wasn't great. But I learned the value of teams and team sports, and that was a good thing. So I hope that your kids are in sports so that they can learn that. But I hope that your kids aren't in sports to the point that it disrupts your whole life and you can never go to church because every game's on Sunday, and you know, everything becomes about sports. Somehow there needs to be a balance there. But in the Olympics, you know, there's hockey players that could end up in a penalty box. There's skiers that might cross over the line, or skaters that might cross over the line and lose time points. And there are so many penalties when it comes to sports. And in our Christian life, there can be penalties and difficulties. And again, verse 7 endure hardship is discipline. God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father, if you are not disciplined and everyone undergoes discipline, then you are not legitimate, true sons and daughters at all. And to have God to work in your life, to remove misplaced desires and attachments. Sometimes sometimes God God changes relationships because he wants to put you in the right place. Sometimes God will change your job. Sometimes God will take away things that are in the way. You know, the Bible says that God is a jealous God. And so there was a period of time where I had a car that I really liked. And I poured, I was going to pour a bunch of money into it. It was an Italian car. And I was really into that car. And I think God said, Yeah, no, no car is going to get in the way of our relationship. And it just seemed like that car was like set on self-destruct. It's like every time I turned around, something else was breaking. And so now I see that it kind of got in the way of my relationship. And God's like, yeah, that's not going to happen. No idols between me and Chris. And so that kind of fell apart. And now I see that. And I'm glad for that, because I mean that car would have rusted away and not been any good anyway. But I do have a relationship with Christ. And it is awesome. Jesus said, I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit. Well, every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be more fruitful. Would you like God to go through your life and clean some stuff up? Would you like God to go through your life and say, focus on this, not on that? Lift up a f lift up a branch and say, hey, focus on this, do this. This is where you're going to find the most fruit. This is where you're going to be more successful if you do this and not that. Focus on these things. And that can be a good thing when you prioritize God. So God may discipline us by allowing consequences when warnings are ignored. God may discipline us through hardship that exposes dependence like training in extreme conditions. When those Olympians train, they don't just train for the event, many of them. They go through additional training that gets them prepared, especially for the Winter Olympics, that says, hey, you can run this race when it's 30 degrees, but could you do this race when it was minus 10 degrees? Let's get you on a course and get you used to that just in case that happens. Or, you know, if the humidity was this, or, you know, your endurance, your strength, so many things. A coach brings you through those things to make you stronger. Sometimes God brings you through difficult things in life to make you stronger. Sometimes He brings you through wilderness seasons in your life to train you up with different skills that you wouldn't have had otherwise. And that can be a really good thing. And you should trust God's discipline because it's training you for what's lying ahead. It's training you for what's lying ahead. So it says we've all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for us for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of the Father of Spirits and live? They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good in order that we may share in his holiness. So a holiness that we are not just, you know, nice people, but we are holy people set apart to God, living the way that God wants us to live. And when we live that way, there is more of a contentment, there is more of a peace, there is more of an assurance that we're truly children of God. When we live in this way, then when we come to the end of our days, we can look back and see what God was doing. And sometimes when we go through discipline or we go through coaching, we go through a rerouting, we go through difficult times. At the time, it's like, what are we doing? This doesn't seem right. God, have you abandoned me? God, what are you doing? God, what is going on here? But then we look back and we're like, wait, wait, I see what you're doing here. I see how you are making a difference in my life. Because we can, number four, trust that when God allows pain, it brings lasting gain. Have you ever seen the relationship to that where, you know, if your coach made you do difficult things that you were getting, even though you were sore and, you know, it was it was tough. I mean, maybe you felt like you were gonna throw up because it was such a difficult thing, the exercises that you had to do or whatever, that you found you were getting stronger and that you were gaining more endurance and that things were going better. And sometimes you were just amazed at the at the strength you had at the time. And that sometimes when God brings pain, it brings gain because no discipline seems pleasant at the time but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained for it. And that's what we want. We want God's training in our life. We want God's direction. We want God to move in our life so that we can be more useful in his hands. We can be stronger. We can endure difficulty. So many times I look back at hard things that I've gone through and how God has gotten us through. And then when the future hard things come, it's like, oh, I know how God can get it. I have faith. I have confidence that God got us through the stuff in the past, He can get us through this hard stuff now. A righteousness that's based in Jesus, a righteousness that is shown out by the way that we live and the things that we do. And Second Corinthians 4 16 says, That is why we never give up, though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever. So we don't look at the troubles we can see now, rather we fix our gaze on the things that cannot be seen. For the things that we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. We never give up. We have this confidence that God is moving us through a process, God is moving us through his plan. And so in my own life, some of the things that God motivated me to do that were hard actually prepared me for the future. So when I had, when I first got out of high school, I went to Bible college for a bit, but then I dropped out. I didn't really like the school I was going to. And then in that time, I met the perfect girl and we got married and had the got the start of the perfect marriage and had the perfect kids. And I really felt like I was supposed to go back to school, but it was difficult. It was hard. And but I felt, my wife and I felt like God wanted me to go to school. And so we figured out a plan where I could still work full time and go to school full time. And I had this this chart, this like chart where I'd map out the time, and we agreed on what time I'd study and what time I would do this stuff, and I was a volunteer youth pastor at my church, too, and worked it all out. And it was really hard and it was difficult, but we did it. We worked out the time thing. I mean, there were so many things that I started doing that I would have never done before. And so as I was doing that, it started to become more of a habit. And then I found out that that was the type of endurance, the type of discipline, self-discipline, the type of skill you need to need to have if you're gonna go out and start a church with no people as church out of nothing. If you're just gonna show up in town and start a church, you need those same principles, those same goal-setting principles to make that happen. So, what seemed really hard in the past to get through Bible college was the skill, the thing that I was trained up in so that I could be successful in the church planting thing. And so God was at work in that. And, you know, people were encouraging me in that. My wife was encouraging me, and that was really good. And I feel like the Holy Spirit led me to that and working that plan and doing that whole thing. Uh, I think, you know, God really helped me through it. I can't say I did it on my own strength, but God was there, and God has been at work in my life, you know, and in your life too, saying, Don't do this, do this, do it this way. You can do this better. People will come into your life and give you suggestions, ideas, teaching will, reading God's word will. Sometimes the Holy Spirit brings things to mind. All of those things. But the worship team can come up here. But the next time we get together, we're going to look at encouraging one another to finish strong. But let's pray. Jesus, I thank you so much that we can see this, we can know how our Heavenly Father works to guide and you do, how to guide us and discipline us and instruct us and to motivate us and to train us up for the good things you have for us. Lord, I pray that we would be in your will doing what you want us to do, that we wouldn't need discipline, that we would just need continual coaching and that we would respond to that so that we can do great things with the time that we have and impact people around us for eternal good. In Jesus' name. Amen.