"Yet we know from experience that life, despite our confidence in our salvation, is not easy. Jesus knew that life is hard (they tried to throw Him off a cliff, they mocked Him, and they eventually brutally executed Him), and He told us just that, saying that in this world, we will have trouble and tribulation (John 16:33). Have we ever gotten upset with God because things are tough, and they don’t seem to be getting any easier? Yet Christ has told us it would be this way. Why do we go on expecting things to be easy?
Life is tough, no doubt about it. Jesus never meant it to be easy. He said in this world we will have trouble. The promise, however, is that He has overcome this world. When we remember our calling and our inheritance in heaven, we will more adequately keep our eyes fixed upon Him Who will keep us in perfect peace no matter what difficulties come our way. As Isaiah 26:3 says, “The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You.” It is a challenge to stay the course and be steadfast, but if we can keep our minds fixed upon Christ and rest upon Him by faith, He will keep us in perfect peace. The Christian life is not easy, but it can be one of great joy, incomprehensible peace, intimacy with our Lord, and rest for our souls.
It is said, those spiritually instable often make claim that it is simple, and reject the reality that man made imaginations only serve for self-justification,
to control their own worldly selfishness...'Christ In Us' remains one of the greatest challenges a human shall ever encounter...
in this age, truth being unlikely to be accepted by the spiritually discerned."
'Praise God'
Life is tough, no doubt about it. Jesus never meant it to be easy. He said in this world we will have trouble. The promise, however, is that He has overcome this world. When we remember our calling and our inheritance in heaven, we will more adequately keep our eyes fixed upon Him Who will keep us in perfect peace no matter what difficulties come our way. As Isaiah 26:3 says, “The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You.” It is a challenge to stay the course and be steadfast, but if we can keep our minds fixed upon Christ and rest upon Him by faith, He will keep us in perfect peace. The Christian life is not easy, but it can be one of great joy, incomprehensible peace, intimacy with our Lord, and rest for our souls.
It is said, those spiritually instable often make claim that it is simple, and reject the reality that man made imaginations only serve for self-justification,
to control their own worldly selfishness...'Christ In Us' remains one of the greatest challenges a human shall ever encounter...
in this age, truth being unlikely to be accepted by the spiritually discerned."
'Praise God'
