There are certain things that when we start following Christ that He calls us to give up. Maybe for some people it is their dreams and for others it could be a harmful habit. When we decide to follow Him he calls us to be willing to lay down everything to follow him like the rich man who Jesus told to go and sell everything he had give it away to the poor and then come and follow him. There are so many things in my life that I feel like I can never give up or rather as soon as I think that I have given it up the reality that it is still there comes back like a punch in the face. Is he worth it of course, is every minute within his presence an immense blessing absolutely, is there more to gain by spending every moment dwelling wirh him sure but I have still yet to perfect the art of giving up: the art of letting go of every single human fleshly desire to seek the things that I personally long for rather than the things that god longs for me. Every time I feel like I have succeeded, in comes these hidden desires. These hidden desires hold tight like a ghostly figure retained in the secret memories in the back of mind waiting to make an appearance. Once it makes its appearance everyrthing that my flesh says that I am missing out on begins to be something I crave. Then, when desire creeps in, loneliness or depression is stirred for a lack of something that I am in no need of (or at least I don't think that I am in need of). This is how the art of giving up evades me. Every time I think I have given up everything precious to me like Abraham, who was willing to give up his own son, I am reminded that part of me still holds on to what I thought was let go. The blessed truth even in this whole circumstance is that the God of Heaven and earth has grace enough for me to never give up on me when I struggle giving up what I do not need.
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What could be more Ridiculous than God's grace?
His Grace is enough
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