For those of you who think what I right is somehow easy to me; it most certainly is not! You see before I write or preach any of this to you, I have to wrestle with the conviction brought to bear on my own life. If you think I or any other preacher, who rightly delivers God's word, some how get to a point where it is "easy" for them to say; you have no idea what you are talking about. It is a burden that we can barely live with, and the very same burden that we can not live without. And in saying that, don't you think for a moment that I regret what I have been called to do.
But this is what I have come to understand, that I am not alive without Christ. And this is what I so desperately want to get across to you dear soul, that you are not truly alive without Him. Let's, for a moment, throw out all of the terms: I am talking about someone who truly wants to know Christ. Because, if that is Who you truly want to know: it will change your life. When you are willing to put down the "I wants" and exchange them all for, "How could this Christ love me so?" God will begin doing an amazing work in you.
What do I have to promise you for taking this path? you may ask. If I could say "nothing," it would be so much easier than what I am about to say. Death is what I have to offer for this path. I am not kidding, and I am not apologizing. If you truly want to know Christ, you'll taste the same things that He tasted. Spending, in the fullest sense of the term, your life, is what I am talking about. Pouring out your life for the good of others. By others, I don't mean a throng of people who say thank you, I love you or bless you; some might, but most won't. I mean people who don't like you, hate you or try to harm you. But the very thing that works death in us: works life in them! So, what's the upside to signing up to die: you may change some one's life for good and always.
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