The Hard Way...

THE HARD WAY…Our start point can be surprisingly wrong. There is something in our humanity that instinctively wants things that are 180 degree’s opposite of what God has lined up for us. What happens if we continue going against the flow that the entire universe has been pre-depositioned to deliver to us???
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? it is useless for you to fight against my will”. ~Acts 26:14
Saul(Paul), was a determined guy. He’s what we would call a type A personality. He had it in his mind that this newly burgeoning movement of Christ-followers were absolutely wrong. So being the good Pharisee that he was, he started going from town to town having these Christians tortured until they renounced Christ and went back to being good synagogue Jew. One day, as he was on a secluded path travelling to one of these torture sessions, the Spirit of Christ visited him. We need to pay close attention to what Jesus said. “Paul, it’s useless for you to fight against my will”. That was conversation point #1. We need to let this resonate deeply within us. For every person that has ever decided to leave behind an old life to follow a new one with Christ, this is the first question Christ asks, “are you going to insist on your will or observe & follow mine?” No one has ever gotten to second base in their journey of faith until they’ve learned to surrender to the flow of God. For some, they attend church and read their Bibles and look like good Christians…but they aren’t. They are stubborn and insistent upon their own way of doing everything! That…is a hard life. Others are able to field this first question well and learn early to surrender to the will of God. And immediately the flow of God starts carrying them along…and they thrive. My thought is, if we’re going to take the time to be a Christian, might as well get into the lane where the flow of God carry’s us. Why travel THE HARD WAY? ~verlon