Thursday, October 21, 2010

What does it look like?

"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption..." 1 Corinthians 1:3-8


For me to give up my life for Christ's sake and the sake of the Gospel?

Today it looked like:
Letting go of everything I knew, completely.
Idolatry. Distrust in God. Pride. Co-Dependency on man.
Hurting, really bad, for the moment.
Still imagining the perfect plans God may have for my life.
Finding that my hope is where it needs to be.
Giving up control, despite my feelings.
Knowing that God is greater than this and my pain.



"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort." 2 Corinthians 1:3-8

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