Chastening has a few meanings. Each one we can apply to our lives coming from God. 1. To correct with or without punishment or suffering - same as discipline 2. To prune of excess, pretense, or falseness 3. To cause to be more humble or restrained The Lord corrects us, both in His word, and sometimes through the things we experience in life. We don't like to think of it, but sometimes a hardship teaches us a valuable lesson. Of course, the best correction, the easiest is stra

Deuteronomy 28:1-8 1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. 4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body,