What Is Your Will In Christ?

  ***  To the diligent faithful, I apologize in advance for what may seem somewhat redundant and potentially confrontational. It's not my goal to be either, but there may be some that this speaks to. And if it does, then my heart cries out for them to not only hear it, but to gain from it. *** The struggle for human achievement and notoriety is an old one. History is full of achievers and notable people and I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a bad thing. But from a personal perspective, having invested a number of years in life so far I've come to a humbling, yet not defeating conclusion:  There's nothing that I have ever done and nothing that I could possibly do that would ever have the smallest chance of equaling what's already been done for me - the greatest example being Christ's sacrifice of course, but so much more well beyond that. Personal life fact: on a 1 - 10 scale of things that count in Father God's examination of my life, there are a ...

God's response to Job in the 38th Chapter of the Book Of Job has always helped reinforce my perspective and my respect for who God is - along with the rest of scripture of course.  "Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me." “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened?Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" “Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth and issued from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors; when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here ...

“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"   Numbers 23:19 (NKJ) I find myself struggling to refrain from speaking out straightforwardly about some subjects, given the emotional heights they invoke in me, but I've started wondering lately though if perhaps my hesitance might prove costly to anyone that might have otherwise been touched or forewarned. They might be caused to move in a truly positive direction if I had been more bold. Not only that, but I also fear how I might be held accountable for my timidity in the final accounting that is certain to come. So, self control being a fruit of The Spirit, I resolve to seek His fruitfulness in myself in earnest as I relate what troubles me here. At the height of my urgent concern I have an important question, one whose answer may well prove to alter the destination of some spirits passing from this life to the ne...