A Prayer about Not Resenting Correction

Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise. Proverbs 15:12

Gracious Father,

Throughout your word, 

we find you calling us 

to heed correction and discipline. 

And yet, we confess, 

we resist it; 

sometimes we even resent it. 

How desperately we need your correction, though,

for our hearts are stubborn and still plagued by sin; 

we are too much the wayward sheep, 

all going our own way (See Isaiah 53:6).

How desperately we need a Savior, 

and how desperately we need to trust your discipline 

as a kindness to us. 

We do not want to be people 

who “despise the Lord’s discipline,” 

who “resent your rebuke” (Prov. 3:11).

Rather, make us your very own children 

who know that you “discipline the one you love” (Hebrews 11:6), 

who trust that your discipline, 

while it seems painful, 

“yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness 

to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11). 

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Read Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 15:12; Hebrews 12:3-11.