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KeilCoppes
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There seems to be a fundamental quality to things, that no matter where you are in life, God sends challenges to stretch you, to challenge your commitment to your principles, and to challenge you to stand on God's principles rather than your own.
And there always seems to be a cost to standing and a significant cost. If there weren't, then I suppose it wouldn't be a challenge. The real challenge goes down to the core of what you are and what you're about. Either you stand and watch what you thought were your dreams or comforts be destroyed, in favor of principle and relying on God's providence, or you go after your own feelings. If you don't put yourself on the line before God, then you fail the test.
It is the determining step when you step out in what you hope or in self voiding obedience, without promise, counting the cost and accepting it even when others are almost guaranteed stand against you and count you less based on their previous expressions. The cost is sometimes friends, hopes, dreams, self esteem, pride ... in the end you walk with God alone, counting it a blessing beyond reliance when He sends others to walk with you.
In the end facing obedience is a fundamental in character. How important really is obeying God to each of us? And if God's word or God's world is against what you are willing to do? How many people who call themselves Christians will deny themselves? What about you?
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And there always seems to be a cost to standing and a significant cost. If there weren't, then I suppose it wouldn't be a challenge. The real challenge goes down to the core of what you are and what you're about. Either you stand and watch what you thought were your dreams or comforts be destroyed, in favor of principle and relying on God's providence, or you go after your own feelings. If you don't put yourself on the line before God, then you fail the test.
It is the determining step when you step out in what you hope or in self voiding obedience, without promise, counting the cost and accepting it even when others are almost guaranteed stand against you and count you less based on their previous expressions. The cost is sometimes friends, hopes, dreams, self esteem, pride ... in the end you walk with God alone, counting it a blessing beyond reliance when He sends others to walk with you.
In the end facing obedience is a fundamental in character. How important really is obeying God to each of us? And if God's word or God's world is against what you are willing to do? How many people who call themselves Christians will deny themselves? What about you?
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