Discipline In Today’s Society Is A Most Relevant Urgent Challenge Facing All In Leadership

Discipline is one of the most relevant urgent challenges facing leadership at every level and for a variety of reasons.

School discipline, as well as discipline in other areas of society, has become a controversial topic.
Discipline is almost a dirty word. It is not, but the consequences of indiscipline are more serious than many recognise.

Almighty God has established an amazing principle with regard to discipline. The man whom Almighty God disciplines is blessed.

There is a difference between being disciplined and being punished, but the individual who refuses discipline will end up being punished in some form.

There is another person whom Almighty God blesses. He happens to be the man who is taught from God’s law.

Notice how discipline comes before teaching. That requires to be taught in every teacher’s training college. This is one reason why discipline is so vital and essential. This principle has almost been reversed over these past years.

Without discipline there can be no real teaching. When discipline is abandoned, teaching ceases. If a teacher cannot exercise discipline, he cannot really teach.

God goes even further. He will not attempt to teach those who refuse discipline. That depicts and indicates just how serious a matter this has become.

When Jesus Christ was teaching, the crowds gathered to hear Him. He had no problem with discipline.

When Jesus was about to feed the hungry, He had them sit down in an orderly manner. Jesus Christ had no time for chaos, and when he called men he called them to discipleship which is exactly the same word and comes from the Greek for mathematics. That is how exact and precise discipline has to be at times.

Imagine an indisciplined army going off to war. Soon there would be many casualties. That is what we are tragically witnessing in our society in these present days in so many different fields, as man tried to go it alone without God.

Submitting Himself to the authority of His Father resulted in Jesus’ authoritative teaching and orderly activity. Discipline does not limit nor restrict. It frees releases and liberates. The football match is best played when the lines are visible and specific, and when the ball goes out of play the game has to stop.

When Paul spoke to those who realised how needy they were, he had no trouble. It was when he was confronted with the philosophers and rebels who thought they could get on without God that problems exploded.

God sees when man tries to go his own way and struggle on without His direction and guidance.

He knows the thoughts of man and He knows that they are futile. The Psalmist explains that in clear distinct terms.

God knows what He is talking about.

Sandy Shaw

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