Article March 8, 1975 Issue

Chastening—A Continuing Purification

FRANK S. MOORMAN

What does chastening mean? It is generally considered to mean reformative punishment and affliction. But to one who is seeking the truth of being and endeavoring to cleanse his thinking, the word "chasten" denotes correction by spiritual understanding.

Chastening is a continuous, corrective process, wherein we are gently but firmly led away from our wrong, or mistaken, thoughts and acts by our loving Father-Mother God and learn to walk in the path God defines.

A common view of chastening is that God sends temptation to us, that we are too weak to resist, and that consequently we sin. Then God chastens us; that is, He punishes us to free us, to cancel out our sin. But the Bible asserts, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." James 1:13;

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