"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ..."
John 6:53
ESV
How can better come out of...
death...
rejection...
divorce...
How is it better... to not fill an ache in your flesh... suffer... just because... He says... No...
Do you trust Him...? His love...?
Do you believe He is who He says...?
God demonstrates His patient unfailing love in so many ways... every day... yet we often walk around blind to it...
The wonder of His love revealed through His Son should be enough to convince... but it's hard...
We let dark... outweigh... light...
A loved one asked me recently... eyes welling...
How do you receive this Love...?
By faith... exercising it everyday... one moment at a time... believing He is who He says... Love...
It's a battle... it's hard... to believe No means something better... even the best...
Jesus... He knew... knows... this struggle... sweating blood... to see better... in No...
At its core Gethsemane depicts, after all, the story of an unanswered prayer. The cup of suffering was not removed. ...
This time only [on the cross], of all his prayers in the Gospels, Jesus used the formal, distant word "God" rather than "Abba" or "Father." He was quoting from a psalm, of course, but he was also expressing a grave sense of estrangement. Some inconceivable split had opened up in the Godhead. The Son felt abandoned by the Father.
--- Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
We... no less... feel the same abandonment... but like Jesus... we need to trust... Nevertheless... not my will... but Yours... be done...
At the heart of surrender to the Father... is the belief... that No... is the best...
We live in a war zone... battles erupt regularly... a reminder... this world is NOT our home... He does not want us to get comfortable here... He longs for us... to keep... pressing... on...
I have something better... for you...
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