I probably blog more about my morning reflections then anything - but God has just continued to reveal SO MANY TRUTHS to me this way - and I MUST share with you again this morning!!!
For those who feel that their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept the love of Christ, which knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened,” he assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that physical pain, the loss of loved ones, failure, loneliness, rejection, abandonment, and betrayal would sap our spirits, that the day would come when faith would no longer offer any assurance, any drive or comfort, that prayer would lack any sense of reality or progress, that one day we would echo the cry of Teresa of Avila, “Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, it is no wonder you have so few.”
All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ~ 2 Thessalonians.
Thank you Lord for using Brennan Manning’s Reflections for Ragamuffins to continue to teach me the value of being a true disciple! This is a great piggy-back off of what we just discussed on suffering and being lukewarm (previous two posts). I don’t want to be lukewarm, God! I want to give you all of me (but not with an attitude, Lord)…with a JOYFUL HEART!
Thank you for today!
Where have you seen God’s grace in your life today?