“A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.” Proverbs 29:19 KJV.

There is difference between a son and a servant.

A servant is moved by personal obligations and partial rewards. He serves for gain.

But a son serves from a place of honour, because he is in the place where everything that the Master have belongs to him. He protect his inheritance.

When a servant is corrected, though he understands the correction he doesn’t respond to it.

This is because servants don’t lose the whole thing, when they exit the business, take for example one who is employed he is only getting wages supply from hands to mouth and that’s all.

But the real wealth is with the guy who owns the business.

As long as the servant reports to duty his aim is on the salary he doesn’t care the long-term impact of his actions on the business.

When the business dies, he can get another employment, because it doesn’t entirely affect him.

This is the same attitude he receives correction for he sees correction as away of constraining him.

No one is committed as long as an option exists. Genuine commitment is for those who have no option but to be there.

As long as one thinks that what they want from you, they can get it elsewhere, they will never be committed to the discipline you give.

Real commitment is to say, “I hear, and will guard my position with whatever it takes to maintain the relationship!”

Sons understand the disadvantage that come with losing sonship — it is a lose of inheritance!

They see rebuke as opportunity to improve their relationship with the Master.

Correction help you see through the heart of the Master on what he requires of you, so that the relationship thrives.

Correction means you have been counterproductive in some areas, that if not realized and corrected, can damage the relationship and frustrate the benefits.

Sons will guard their relationship by taking correction and adjusting to the heart beat of the Master.

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.” Proverbs 12:1.

Correction yields more knowledge.

Correction creates room to be entrusted with more responsibility. It causes a sense of security in the relationship.

The prodigal son though, was a son who lived like a servant. He asked for the portion that was already his, and spent it with a servant mindset. A ‘servant mindset’ is a ‘taking mindset’.

When the prodigal son came back to the relationship, he came back as son, and probably would never offend that relationship again, for when he does the wrong thing, he has more to lose than to gain. He protects what he shouldn’t lose.

We are sons not slaves!

Don’t take task conflict to mean relationships conflict. Correction is needed for growth.

 

Shalom,
~ Prophet Peter Odhiambo

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Prophet Peter Odhiambo of Heart Revival Network International, Kenya is a Prophetic End-Time Minister of the Gospel, preaching in Crusades and open air Revival meetings. The LORD continues to show him the apostasy in the Church and the need to prepare the Bride, fit for the Wedding of the Lamb, as in Revelation 19:7-8.

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