Psalm 94:12-15 Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O LORD, and whom You teach out of Your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

How difficult it is, Lord, to ask for discipline and to see that as a source of blessing. But if I truly want to know You in the very depths of my heart and to learn to follow You with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, discipline is the gift that I must plead for. And the practice that I must faithfully seek.
Those two aspects of discipline, those that You use to teach me and those that I use to train me. Lord, instruct the Holy Spirit to agitate me with both. And to give me the ears of the heart to hear and the will to follow.