Hebrews 12

I love you, Father, and I am encouraged because you deal with me as your child. You have chastened me and rebuked me as a perfect father. You have pruned me and taught me and perfected me that I might be of use to you and a partaker of your holiness. Your love and attention to me, has trained me in your truth and yielded the peaceable fruit of righteousness in me, and in my small part of your kingdom.

Therefore, I lift up my hands, and I stand firm. I walk in a straight path following you, Lord Jesus. I pursue peace with all people. I revel in holiness. I am filled with grace and quick to forgive so no root of bitterness springs up in me.

I am lead by your Holy Spirit, Father, and I am dead to fleshy, profane lust. I have my eyes on the Lord Jesus. I long for him to write every paragraph of my life story.

He endured fleshly suffering by looking ahead to the joy of obedience and holiness. He knew the infinite value of obeying you, Father. He witnesses that encouragement to me now.