During times in life when things are tough, when we are being sifted and being tested, if we take steps away from worthwhile challenges simply to make things easier for ourselves or more bearable we have to consider whether or not we've really surrendered our lives for His. In fact, if giving things up that we are doing, doesn't cause us conflict in our hearts, then we should wonder if God called us to it at all.
The things we do should cause us to grow more dependent on Him. We will be sifted. We will be tested. But will we walk away to where things might be easier? Will we hide in fear? Or will we dig in and withstand the tests of our resolve? Will we give our lives to Him every single day, knowing that it might not be easy? Knowing that to lay down our lives for Him it might really cost us everything that we hold dear? Knowing that that idea is not literary rhetoric, but biblical truth?
We can't lean on our own grit and stubborness and expect to make it. We need more power than that; we need more heart than that. So we lean instead on Faith, Truth, and *real* surrender to the infinite God, of infinite power, and infinite heart. The wonderful thing is that on the other side of that surrender is unspeakable joy. On the other side of it, there is sweet LIFE.
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