STRIKE AND HEAL

Isa 19:22
22 The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. NIV
** Strike them and then heal them???? Does this go along with your doctrine? I’m sure this scripture bothers a lot of people when they read it. God will strike them and then….. heal them? This is not God’s fault…. Often times we get focused on the one who punishes rather than the ones being punished. It is easy here to focus on God striking them than the reason for the striking…. It was because Israel ONCE AGAIN had wandered away from God and was serving other gods and idols and doing all kinds of things horrible in the Lords sight. So, God, like a loving father, takes His children and disciplines them and when they turn to the right way, He heals them. If God just gave us everything we wanted and never disciplined us when we went astray, then He truly wouldn’t love us.