If God isn’t chastening you, then He isn’t Fathering you; if He isn’t Fathering you, then you don’t belong to Him. So this isn’t punishment; it’s proof of ownership. And what often brings it about is a crisis of truth that generates unpleasant but necessary pain. KING DAVID: COMPROMISE, CRISIS, CORRECTION No one illustrates this better than King David, who embodied the kind of greatness we’d love to achieve and the level of failure we pray we’ll avoid. Looking at the harrowing episode in his life