Apparently refinement is something that God is trying to get into my hard brain. Do hard things. Don't get trapped in by comfort. Pick up your cross. Offer your body as a living sacrifice. These things just don't ever go away from me these days.
I had Wesley tonight. It was great. super challenging. David talked about Growing in Christ and the times that God calls us to a deeper level of our walk with Him, like when the Israelites were being led into the promised land. He calls us and we can either listen and follow, or we can say "no, no God. I'm fine here. I don't really want to venture into that unknown land." That's complacency. We should not be content with where we are. We should want to go deeper. In 10 years, I do not want to be in the same place spiritually that I am now. Similarly, I don't wish that for anyone else. Then the kicker: we are to pick up our cross daily. Well, the cross kills. In fact, it kills flesh.It hurts. The hurt is our flesh being ripped away. Graphic? yes. Painful? yes. Beautiful? yes. We can be tempted to run from the cross. Run from our flesh being torn away. Run from pain. Run from sacrifice. Or, we can run to it- because that's what running to God is. yikes. it's hard.
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