always.

Thursday, March 03, 2005

just some food for thought...
note: i'm not begging you to read on

True faith means making uncomfortable and sometimes painful choices.
If we look hard enough we will always find "good" things we have to abandon in order to be obedient to the Lord, and this may deceive us into thinking that maybe the Lord is wrong.
But when we do this we actually mock Yahweh and tell Him that He still needs us in a situation where He may have previously blessed us in the days of our ignorance.
But circumstances change.
Circumstances which appear to be in His absolute will often turn out only to be circumstantial - adaptations He makes, through His grace, based on less that good choices. Thus He does not abandon us completely if we make deliberately wrong choices.
Nevertheless the blessings He does give us in such circumstances should never be interpreted to mean that He is pleased with what we have done.
He is still waiting for us to repent and do what we were supposed to have done in the first place.
We cannot exploit grace and mercy indefinitely.

I am not saying that faith is necessarily easy, only that it is much easier than you probably think.
We are too easily put off by carnal thinking reinforced by the world of friends and secular ideas. We build our own cages of doubt and wonder why there are obstacles in the way.
We procrastinate and wonder why our journey is like pulling along iron balls on chains with our feet. Worst of all, we can grow so "comfortable" with our spiritual incarceration that we begin to forget what real freedom is like.

what you had seen as failure on your part, He saw as faith.

hope you'd be alrite.


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