I Look back there is nothing to go back to and but then I look ahead the glory set ahead makes me despise my pain, shame, humiliation, reproach and all the troubles and afflictions. I want my living and my dying to bring glory to Jesus.Well I might as well go all the way because I know on the other side is glory. I have been blessed in that GOD has given me a revelation of all that he has given me to the last detail.Well honestly speaking he did not tell me what I was going to have to go through to get there.
Some how Gods way of showing his affection is by chastising. I like the way Jesus put it "my father meaning GOD is the husbands man and Jesus the vine and we are the branches" so if you do not bear fruit GOD cuts you off so you wither and die. Now notice if however you bear fruit, he prunes so that you can bear more fruit. Since pruning also involve cutting unwanted bits or dead bits it is bound to hurt. Those bits are things that we have grown attached to, but is junk in the kingdom of heaven. We have a lot of unwanted things in our lives that need to be taken out and new fresh fruit to come out. GOD is more interested in the volume of our fruit. He wants to use us to the maximum till there is nothing else left to give.
The ultimate goal is to mold us to be like JESUS was. Who is equal to GOD yet gave it all up to save his own creation the whole world. What manner of love is this that he gave his only begotten son for a retch like me or you. We add nothing to his salvation all we have to do is believe. Come on people, only believe as simple as that. When you look at the way the Israelite were living before Christ, it was painstakingly hard with rules that no man could follow. It took GOD to take up a body of a man to come and fulfill the law itself to the letter.
As much as GOD is our father he also is the sovereign LORD and he has been around for eternity he has all the experience with man. One of our main problems is pride. Just go around most preachers and you will see all puffed up thinking it is them doing the miracles. Then there is the issue of women oops! that is taking a lot of them down. Last but not least the love of money. What can I say most struggle with life then GOD opens up opportunities, then all hell breaks loose. Just go in an average church and dare talk about people checking with the Holy Spirit about where they should give their tithe. I can bet, you will have a fight on your hands.
Time and again many men and women of GOD have failed because they did not Finnish the course. Along the way it become too much. Honestly things of GOD are not that easy especially if he is going to use you. mightily. That's why it is good to think long and hard before you say LORD here I am use me. When I stared out I used to tell fellow Christian friends that I want to seek GOD so much that he would get up off his throne pace to and fro not knowing what to do with me. You know like Stephen in the bible in Ac:7:55: But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Believe me JESUS took my word for it and I have since cried, been hurt been humiliated, reproached, gone through shame, pain so bitter even lost everything I had, . I have even come to say, me and my big mouth but, I have never loved JESUS more. I would lie to you if I say I have never thought why did I get myself into all this, I mean one bitter moment after another. But I gotta hand it to GOD he is faithful. He has stayed true to his word I will never leave you nor forsake you.
I am nothing without the Holy Spirit he has been my constant companion I know GOD has come and commended me on things about me that he was impressed with but really the glory belongs to GOD himself. As it is written
Ro:8:26: Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
I repeat I could not make it without the help of GOD himself helping me get the best of Himself. When we say GOD is good indeed all the time he is good. Imagine giving us his own spirit to help us get the best of the FATHER.
When it is all said and done if you want to be used by GOD you will be making the greatest choice. He is good he provide his grace through all that he allows you to pass. Don't take my word for it test him and see he is good. His goodness is almost wasteful. Whats his secret to making it through He says Ps 46:10 be still or stop fighting or stop striving and know that I am GOD. Just let go and let him take control. The pain, the humiliation, the reproach, all come with the territory. No matter what morning has to come with joy it can not be night forever. Always remember all things work together for good to those who love GOD, to those who are called according to His purpose Rom 8:28.
Soon he will give you double for your trouble, the rewards are mind blowing as it is written no eye has seen no ear heard the things that GOD has in store for those who love him. Every jim and jack will make it to heaven by only believing. But what you will be trusted with in heaven will be determined by what works you did here on earth. I mean works after salvation, oh yeah! you gotta work, don't expect to receive JESUS and sit on your backside. We are supposed to be the hands and feet of JESUS.Go visit the sick, prisoners or feed those hungry, give clothes to the naked and so on. Just kneel and ask the Holy Spirit how you can be of service to the LORD. He will direct you in what your gift is and what you should do. GOD bless you
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