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How do you know if you are called and chosen?
JJ:
Jack, another thing..... I have kept a post from another Jack, made back in March, it seems to apply:
God will bring experiences to your life that will rearrange your priorities. By this, your good and evil works will all become vain and unprofitable. This process will realign your desires, so that you will not love family, or
business, or your own life, nearly as much as you desire God's fullness.
Luke 14:26-- "If any man come to me and hate not (love more than ME) his father, mother, wife, children, siblings, his own life also, he cannot be My disciple."
All that you now value on earth will be hacked to pieces and torched by the love of God. When this process is complete, even earthly good will lose its allure, and your values will be permanently altered to prefer the
eternal realm of the spirit above all else.
Phil. 3:8 " Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ."
JJ
JJ:
Hate to discourage anyone, but yes, Bobby, long AND wearisome process
for me! I agree w/ you about the joy in the journey, but there is no
gain w/o pain it seems. I often say that I am between The Rock and
a hard place and God will NOT let me go!!
I want to endure to the end, and I am so grateful that God has chosen
to chasten and refine me!!! But, it is not a bit fun or easy, that process
of inch by inch, layer by layer-dying -- for me learning to trust Him even
if life is painful and horrible and learning to desire His will, no matter
what it may bring, above any comfy life. (that He will not let me make for
myself anyway!)
And thus that awesome power and mystery of God's work: That He could put such peace and joy in my/our heart when the external circumstances appear to be so bleak and unsavory. God -- almighty God, so merciful
and loving........
JJ
rocky:
--- Quote from: JJ ---Hate to discourage anyone, but yes, Bobby, long AND wearisome process
for me! I agree w/ you about the joy in the journey, but there is no
gain w/o pain it seems. I often say that I am between The Rock and
a hard place and God will NOT let me go!!
I want to endure to the end, and I am so grateful that God has chosen
to chasten and refine me!!! But, it is not a bit fun or easy, that process
of inch by inch, layer by layer-dying -- for me learning to trust Him even
if life is painful and horrible and learning to desire His will, no matter
what it may bring, above any comfy life. (that He will not let me make for
myself anyway!)
And thus that awesome power and mystery of God's work: That He could put such peace and joy in my/our heart when the external circumstances appear to be so bleak and unsavory. God -- almighty God, so merciful
and loving........
JJ
--- End quote ---
I often wonder is there a difference between joy and happiness. I am truly not happy right now. Life is hard, and "it sucks". But at the same time, there is this joy in my heart as Christ releases himself more and more to me, and He becomes more important to me than the external.
eutychus:
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
AMEN BOBBY:
the more i focus on Christ and love the more awsome it gets.
hard times? yes, but i see so much more good and wonderfull things
now.
it comes with growth, it takes time, we all are moving in the right dirrection.
be of good cheer brothers, i say this to edify, if yall knew the old me
and the way i was :cry:
i always thought" how am(( i )) gonna change?" " how am (( i)) gonna make me better?"
finnally LOVE started to grow, and now i say, AHHHHH its him not me :wink:
i cant boast but in him.
seek him with all you got.
love
chuckt
mercie:
Amen Bobby.
Encouraging word.
2Cr 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
2Cr 4:15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
2Cr 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
2Cr 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
2Cr 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
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