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The writer of Hebrews references the surpassing benefit of God’s disciplining rod. “It produces,” states Hebrews 12:11, “a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” O how I want that–an abundant harvest, overwhelmingly huge, of righteousness and peace. Like amber waves of grain rolling just above the midwestern soils, as far as the eye can see. In the end, I suppose, letting our Heavenly Father have His way with us–with me–is the key to such fruitful abundance. Anything less than that will ultimately leave our souls fallow. Surely that won’t be acceptable to us, even if God’s discipline does, as the writer claims, seem painful.