What Is Your Will In Christ?

I once made a comment to a friend that appeared to have taken them aback. T his comment wasn't intended in any way to offend (I love this friend very much), but instead to point to a necessary and very important truth of core priority. It wasn't something that I just tossed out in passing or without my own understanding of the real potential power of its meaning in any one's life. I've personally lived to experience the fruit of it.  Let me say first that my own efforts as a follower of Christ aren't perfect. I rise every day with new hope to be better than the day before with Jesus' help. I'm definitely a child of amazing grace, so I have no elevation above any others in the same position. But I've discovered that this life's difficulties are often intended to bear eternally profitable fruit in the lives of God's children. They're not meant to tear down, but to build up and to refine the character of the souls of the children that our H

On a day when life might find me a victim poisoned by the unending news of mankind's unholy indifference and intentions, grace finds me still to revive my soul to courage and confidence. The word of life gives me renewed hope through reminding me of the one who holds my life's fortune. For it's not in the hands of men without moral compass or those who plot ungodliness with relentless indifference to determine my future. It resides firmly in the hand extended from the power that gave birth to the universe and all that it contains. My future is spoken irrevocably from the very mouth that birthed the multitude of stars and spoke into existence all that resides under the canopy of the heavens. I am reminded that my sojourn in this lifelong education is not by chance, but divine choreography. What my eyes may see and my ears may hear are but opportunities for true examinations of my faith in the one on whom I am, in honesty, wholly dependent. For certainly there is nothing p