The Way of Suffering

 LongSuffering or Forebearance is a key fruit of the spirit. At least the one that I need the most of in this time. I am finding myself dealing with internal issues that are much bigger than sometimes I can handle.

The Lord told me last night " The road up ahead is wrought with pain. None of the pain is bad its all good." He further said this morning " I am going to give you something that is going to pin you to me, I will awaken the hunger in your heart for me. This will change your desire in all other things."

Then he goes on to show me a picture of the nail going to the hand of Christ on the cross.

The cross is the quintessential experience for believer...its is central to his daily vitality in Him. Every gift, provisions, help and revelation hinders on the cornerstone of the salvific work of Calvary. If then we be risen then we should those things which are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above not those thing on the earth. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.

The path way up is down and the pathway in is out. The Lord Jesus transmits to us a measure of this truth when he says if any man wishes to follow after me he must first deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. It will cost me my very life and it should.

How great a gain for such a price? I trade my life for his righteousness that I walk daily in his presence until when i am no longer attached to daily my connection remains with Him. That he shares my burdens and is concerned with my concerns that he then bends himself so that i can understand him and he me. Lost in love relationship what I have no way of understanding but only to experience. That I may confront death as a foe and sickness as fiend and darkness as an obstacle. That his very light to which has animated me is not coursing through my veins.

Once without hope , without God,  lost in the world. Living by my passion beyond my design and outside of the peace of my makeup. No way one can turn this down if one has true understanding of what is being offered by the Lord in exchange for the life force. You get to choose where your eternity ends.

Prayer

I am so unworthy of your love and it astounds me how you continue to lavish me with your love. I am found wanting in EVERYWAY ....I fall short exceedingly but you wont let me go. You know my frame and you intend to hold me until my dying day and for that Lord I am grateful.