Feeding Lambs S1E11 “God Corrects Me”

Feeding Lambs is for our youngest believers and friends in the kingdom. In season one, we are mirroring Feeding Sheep in the sense that we are covering topics that are getting us “back to the basics.”

We will be discussing foundational truths in this season that everyone needs to know and be able to grow and build upon in the times to come. 

“God Corrects Me” uses Proverbs 3:12 as our text of choice and memory verse for the week. We will discuss how God corrects us and what His correction brings into our lives and the source from where His correction comes. 

Just as our earthly parents and other adults correct us and discipline us along life’s journey, God does the same. Even GPS corrects us or reroutes us when we go off course. 

His correction comes from His great love for us. We are His children, and He wants us to be His image in the earth. If He doesn’t correct us, the image will not be clear, and people will not know that we truly belong to Him. 

He corrects us through His word, through speaking to us directly, and sometimes through other people in accordance with our experiences.

His correction never means that He hates us, or that He is finished with us, but rather that He loves us SO much, that He refuses to let us continue going down a wrong path unchecked. He can’t bear the thought of us not arriving at the destination that He has in mind for us. 

Correction/discipline is never pleasant in the moment, but Hebrews tells us that when we receive it and adhere to it, His correction yields in us the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Peace is priceless, and knowing that we are “living right” with God, gives a great sense of fulfillment in us. 

He most assuredly knows what He is doing. I hope that you and your littles enjoy today’s word. 

The most important place we can connect with our children is through sharing our faith. God at the center of any relationship only allows it to become as strong as it can be. Don’t just build memories of vacations, adventures, sports, or school, build memorials of faith that will last throughout eternity. 

We pray that you will listen with your children and let these “mini podcasts” be a doorway to having important conversations about living out their faith, and what it means. Take time to ask them questions and really engage in their spiritual walk! It’ll transform the whole spiritual dynamic of the family if you will.

Please feel free to let your children know that they can reach out—with help from their parents of course—with any questions or topics that they would like to see covered, or they can send in recordings of them doing their weekly memory verses! 

We want them to know that this podcast is just as much for them as it is for the teens/adults. Can’t wait to see how they grow from here!

God bless, and thank you for the opportunity to speak into their lives. What an honor it is!

Transcript

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Hello, my little lambs. Welcome back to Feeding Sheep Podcast, Little Lambs Edition. We are in season one, back to the basics, and this is episode 11 today, and it is called God Corrects Me. Before we jump into the lesson today, let's get to our memory verse and where we'll be taking our text from today. And it is Proverbs 3, verse 12, out of the New Living Translation. I'm going to read it first and then we'll do it together. Okay, it says this for the Lord corrects those he loves, as a father, the son in whom he delights. All right, get ready to say it with me, okay? I'm gonna say some words and you repeat it after me. Here we go. For the Lord corrects those he loves as a father, the son, in whom he delights. Proverbs 3, 12. Okay, so here we read that the Lord corrects those that he loves. To correct something means to discipline. Has anybody ever had their parents or grandparents or teachers correct you when you did something wrong? Me too. I've had to be corrected a lot over the last 38 years, and I'll probably still need some correction the longer that I stay here. Um sometimes our correction, we um have to have some punishment. Sometimes we get timeout, sometimes we get things taken away from us, or we get what I used to call we get grounded, which means you can't go anywhere, you can't do anything. Sometimes uh we get our games taken away, or our free time, or our tablets. Um sometimes we might get us thinking, it's just according to what house you live in. But we get corrected because there are just times, as precious as we are, that we do the wrong thing, that we make wrong choices and wrong decisions. And sometimes we make wrong decisions because we just don't know any better, and sometimes we make them even when we do know better. But the Lord gave us parents because he wanted them to teach us how to be grown-ups and how to be grown-ups who love Jesus, who follow his paths, and who live a good and respectable and righteous life, which means that we live in right standing with the Lord and that we obey his commandments. And the only way to learn to obey is first to be taught and then to be corrected when we do it the wrong way. Just like at school, if you do your homework but you do it the wrong way, your teacher has to say, We I know I taught this yesterday, but it didn't connect. And so I want us to do it again, and I'm gonna give you three pages of worksheets to do so that you can get this in your head the right way to do these problems. It's not because the teacher hates you, it's because she wants you or he wants you to do the best job possible, and he wants you or she wants you to learn it so that you will have it in your mind for the rest of your life, and that you don't have to do that lesson over again because you already know the solution or the answer to the problem. Or maybe you've been in the car with your parents before, going to vacation, or going somewhere that you've never been before, and they use that thing we call GPS, and they get the directions in the phone, and it tells you turn left at the next red light, or turn right at the roundabout. You know, you've heard her, or maybe you guys have a hymn GPS. I don't know. You can set up different voices and different accents, it's very strange. But when you accidentally take the wrong turn because what you're seeing on the map's not lining up with what they're saying in their voice, you take a wrong turn, the GPS will say, rerouting, rerouting. Please make a U-turn at the next available spot. And it will send you back in the right way. Why? Because if you keep going the wrong way, you're never gonna get to your destination. Your parents discipline you and they they correct you because they love you. When you're not being kind, they correct you because they love you enough to want you to grow up to be a kind person that other people will want to be around. If you keep going in an unkind direction, you're not gonna have very many friends and you're probably gonna be really lonely. And one day when you grow up and you need help, there may not be anybody around to help you. So they're trying to help you because they love you. And the same way that our parents love us, the same way that our teachers correct us, or even GPS has to reroute us sometimes when we get lost. God loves us and he corrects us because of that love that he has. Just like a father would correct his child, he corrects us because he delights in us. Do you know that you make God so happy just because you exist? He takes such pleasure in knowing that you are his son or you are his daughter. And because of that, he's gonna correct you. And punishment and correction is never fun, but it helps us to learn and grow and become who we're actually meant to be. Another Bible verse, Hebrews 12 and 11, says, All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful. Yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness, which means to say this that our punishment or correction is never really fun. Sometimes it's just awful. And it doesn't feel good and it makes you sad, or it breaks your heart, or it embarrasses you, or there's several kinds of emotions that can happen whenever we get corrected. But if we listen to that correction and we make adjustments to walk in a correct way, or a corrected way, if we let the correction correct us, it says that there's a peaceful fruit of righteousness that comes from that, which means that we can have peace in our hearts knowing that we're going the right way. And righteousness just basically means I'm doing the right thing before the Lord. Because when we're being corrected, it's not just because we're doing wrong things to other people or we're not getting the problem correct, or we're not going in the right path. There there is this, um we were made to be the image of God. We were made in Genesis when God created us. We talked about that, how he knit us together in our mother's womb. He created us on purpose for a purpose, and it was to be a reflection of him in the earth. If we keep doing things that aren't godly, people won't know that we're a child of God. And so he corrects us because he wants us to look like him. Our parents correct us because when we go out in public, they want people to say, those parents have a good kid. That's an upstanding young man or young lady. Those parents are doing a great job. God also wants people to know that's my kid. You know that's my kid because they act like me. Not that you're ever going to become God. That's not what I'm saying. But we act like God because we are his children. We are born of the Spirit. We are saved and born again into the family of God. He has called us sons and daughters. And so righteousness in me and with God is the point of correction. And that correction comes from love. And the Lord wants us to represent him well. And it won't come without training. We're not born knowing how to live right. We have to be taught. And so our parents teach us, our teachers teach us, our pastors, our leaders, our children's church ministers and pastors that they teach us, um, our friends teach us. But God corrects us and he teaches us. And um, I know this is the perfect setup because next week we're our lesson is gonna be God teaches us. So he corrects us when we're wrong. And uh we're gonna go over that memory verse one more time before we get out of here. And if the Lord is correcting you, it's okay. It doesn't mean that he's mad at you or that he doesn't love you anymore. Quite the opposite. It means that he loves you so much, so much, that he won't let you go a wrong way, not without saying something, not without trying to reroute you, because he delights in you. You are his kid. So God corrects me, and we're gonna go Proverbs 3:12. For the Lord corrects those he loves as a father, the Son, in whom he delights. I hope you have the most wonderful Friday of your whole entire life, and that you receive correction well because it is going to bring about good fruit in your life, and the Lord will be pleased because you're going to represent him the best way possible. I'll talk to you soon. Bye bye.