Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "discipline". The only verse that we find this is in Job 36:10:

Job 36:10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity. KJV

This is the Hebrew word "muwcar". Strong's Concordance says: chastisement, reproof, warning or instruction. Also restraint. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon adds: correction. Proverbs 1:2 translates the same Hebrew word as instruction! Proverbs 1:1-4:

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. KJV

In our modern language many people see "discipline" as  punishment, but without instruction there is no opportunity to make a correction! I also found an interesting take when I searched a Greek word list on my PC Study Bible software and found this verse on a Greek word list for discipline:

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. KJV

Here is what Vine's Expository Dictionary has to say:

DISCIPLINE  sophronismos (NT:4995), from sophron, lit., "saving the mind," from saos, "contracted to" sos, "safe" (cf. sozo, "to save"), phren, "the mind," primarily, "an admonishing or calling to soundness of mind, or to selfcontrol," is used in 2 Tim 1:7, KJV, "a sound mind"; RV, "discipline." Cf. sophroneo ("to be of sound mind"), sophronizo ("to admonish"), sophronos ("soberly"), and sophron, "of sound mind. See MIND. Cf. CHASTISEMENT.

So discipline for ourselves, our children or grandchildren, or anyone else under our responsbility, actually means to teach and train in order for us, or those we are responsible for, to be able to be of sound mind! The Amplified Bible says this for 2 Timothy 1:7:

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. AMP

GOD has already put within us the capacity to accomplish this 'discipline' in our lives! We have a great potential, if we will follow through and put this into practice! I am totally convinced that there is NOTHING that God instructs us to do in His Word that He hasn't already put within us everything that we need to obey and accomplish it! We are SO BLESSED! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Might Sound Wild":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!