“We who live are always
delivered to death for Jesus’ sake.”
2 CORINTHIANS 4:11
The
answer to why there is so little power and genuine spiritual fruit in
the lives of those who follow Jesus is a simple one: they desire the
Life
of the Lord, but not His Death. They want a daily pouring out of the
Lord’s Life, but they shun the prospect of daily sharing in His Death.
The
saints of the Lord are well instructed in living victoriously, being
blessed, walking in power, overcoming the enemy, and living up to their
potential. By comparison, the majority of them know next to nothing
about self-denial, bearing their Cross, boasting in their weaknesses,
being joyful in trials,
winning by losing, gaining by giving up, working by resting, accepting
both the bitter and the sweet as gifts from God, enduring hardness and
accepting suffering. God desires to increase us and enlarge us; He
therefore calls us to go back to the Cross and start over again.
Source: “Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
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I am your
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