I recently crossed paths with person adamant and a bit disheartened that "it's so hard being a Christian." Really? Try being Christ. He did the heavy lifting...literally, as well as celestially.
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I tried to explain that maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but I find it pretty easy, especially in 21st century America, to be a disciple of Christ. My life is not threatened, I'm free to worship Him pretty much as I choose, but probably not often enough, and I find blessings in my life around every corner.
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Sure, there are challenges and stressors (if we let them), but ultimately He's in control...now, still, always. He has a plan to prosper me, a plan to use me, even as He prepares a place
for me in Heaven. To some that's naïve. I'll take the perception of naivete over a life outside the grip of His grace.
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What do I provide? All He asks is my best. All He requests is my all. But, when it's all His anyway, can it really be tough? Sure it can, especially when I incorporate sin: selfishness, laziness, greed, materialism...but that's on me. The debt, though, was put on Christ.
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So, my simple brain boils it down to this: What does God really ask of me? OBEDIENCE to His Word and will, then the TRUST that this is what's best.
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It's a formula that has never failed.
Simple yet redeemed,
Living Word Lutheran High School
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