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You have forgotten his encouraging words for his sons:

“My son, don’t think the Lord’s discipline of you is worth nothing.
    And don’t stop trying when the Lord corrects you.
The Lord corrects those he loves.
    And he punishes everyone he accepts as his child.” Proverbs 3:11-12

So accept your sufferings as if they were a father’s punishment. God does these things to you as a father punishing his sons. All sons are punished by their fathers.

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