Lifting Up Drooping Hands

Responding Appropriately to Chastisement (Hebrews 12:12–17) Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees: and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. (Heb. 12:12–13) In Hebrews 12, the subject is God’s chastisement. Many Christians view chastisement only as painful consequences for specific sins. But chastisement is wider than that. Chastisement is any suffering inflicted by God in love upon his...