Things that come to mind. Things that hopefully will help you grow spiritually. Things that will make you laugh, maybe. A good song or two. Hopefully things that will build us up.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Crab Mentality
Teach us, Lord, to deny ourselves for the sake of your kingdom. Help us distinguish self-righteous suffering from the suffering that comes from bearing our crosses as we follow you. Amen.
God's government/rule means I must rethink everything that every system has tried to teach me(deny myself). That is not easy to do cause many of those things are good, but they are not God. I try to get out from them but they pull me back, like a crab trying to get out of bucket of crabs. Our friends just keep pulling us back down.
Self-righteous suffering. Suffering for the things I want and for whatever reason I am denied. Suffering because I got what I wanted and it turns out it was not good for me.
Suffering that comes from bearing a cross. Death, burial, to my self. Being a servant and not being upset when I am treated like one. Dying to self is the only way to live, resurrection. Death, burial, resurrection.
Statement of faith, let it be so.
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