pain and obedience...
Was reading, for my devotion time, a page from "My Utmost for His Highest", about obedience and only being successfully obedient if we have found peace with God. He (O. Chambers) says that we must put complete reliance on God (Detour: How exactly do we do that?), and lose the desire to serve both God and ourselves. If we try to serve two masters at the same time we pull ourselves into two opposite directions and from this stem pain, confusion, questions... "...there is nothing easier than living the saintly life..." (O.Chambers). it reminded me of a comment hectorC made on my blog. He referred to pain as something that may be a sign of the flesh's resistance to die so that the will of God will be manifested instead. It made me think. Perhaps, its true. Peace may come with obeying God although what does it mean when we feel pain at the same time? O.C. says that at times even with obedience we do not feel peace and we must find out why this is so. Perhaps this happens because it is a grudging kind of obedience, like a child who grumbles about washing the dishes but does them anyway. We do it, because we feel that it is the right thing to do. Putting that in the perspective of recent events, it has made me think that, although I do not grumble, I do feel pain. I'm human, after all, and imperfect in so many ways. My sinful self would rather continue to resist and do what it has been doing in the past, rather than go through this ‘wringing' process. But everytime I think about the pain I'm going through and feel emotions of not wanting to let go, I remember that God is in control. Knowing that and the peace it brings somehow makes obeying much easier to do. But still, I'm wondering: is pain a sign of immaturity? Do more mature Christians deal with discipline more painlessly than less mature Christians? Just a thought...
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Author: joselle
Location: Dumaguete Philippines
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i'm a christian. i grew up in a christian home and lived just across the street from my church. i grew up in sunday school. but after sometime i grew dependent on myself and eventually less dependent on god, and finally experienced a point in my life when i felt...
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