God prepares you in the cross of life that you should embrace without thinking about your own survival. The cross of life hurts, accept the cross and you will find peace even in the midst of the tumult. Let me warn you that if you push the cross aside, your circumstances will be twice as hard to bear. In the long term, it is much harder to live the pain of resisting the cross than to learn to live on the cross of life where God will always accompany you.
Normally when you suffer, it is the life of your own nature that hurts you. When you are dead you do not suffer, it is a deception of Satan because in the end he has a final thrust, he does not want you to die to the earthly. If you were completely dead to your old nature you would stop feeling many of the sorrows that now worry you.
Withstand the pains and wounds of your body with patience. Do the same with your spiritual afflictions do not sharpen the cross of your life by becoming so busy that you do not have time to sit in meekness before God. Do not resist what God brings into your life.
Who prepares the cross of life?
God prepares the cross of life that you should embrace without thinking about your own survival. The cross hurts accept the cross and you will find peace even in the midst of the tumult, if you push the cross to one side you are not yielding your will to God. Contemplate the hand of God in the circumstances of your life.
Do you want to experience true happiness?
Submit yourself in peace and simplicity to the will of God, and bear your sufferings without fights, nothing shortens and relieves your pain as much as the holy spirit. The hardest part of suffering lies in not knowing how big it will be or how long it will last. You will be tempted to impose limits on your suffering, surely you will want to control the intensity of your pain.
The Man generally wants to control everything, this control makes you reject the complete work that the power of the cross of life could carry out in you. Unfortunately, you will be forced to go to the same field again and again. And what is worse, you will suffer a lot, but your suffering will have no purpose.
May the Lord free you from falling into an inner state in which the cross of life does not work in you! God loves the cheerful giver. (II Corinthians 9: 7) Imagine how much you should love those who abandon themselves to their will with encouragement and in full, even though the result is their crucifixion!
What areas require death in your life?
The death that God brings to you is going to pierce deep within the Soul and spirit. He sees in you everything you can not see. God knows exactly where the structures are. It goes directly to those areas that are full of iniquity and give life to sin, and that they prevent you from growing as a believer.
Only pain is felt where there is life. And in this situation, life is precisely the place where death is required. Your father does not waste time cutting what is already dead. If I wanted you to stay as you are, I certainly would.
What is God pursuing through the cross?
God persecutes the destruction of your old nature. He can only do this by making his way to what is alive. Do not expect to just attack those obviously sinful desires that you gave up forever when you surrendered to him.
Rather, I may try you by taking away the wonderful feeling of freedom you feel, or by taking away what now offers you spiritual relief. Will you resist? Do not! Allow it all! offer yourself as a volunteer of your own death, for God will only carry out his work to the extent that you allow it.
What is the attitude you should take before the cross of life?
Do not push aside the progress that God wants to make in your life. He gladly offers all that you now depend on to the good pleasure of God.
Also give spiritual things when he requires them. What are you afraid of, you of little faith? Are you afraid that He will not be able to give you strength when He takes away yours? Why is he taking her? Only in order for him to be your sustenance. The lesson can be painful, but He wants to purify you.
What should you do before the cross?
God intends to carry out his work in you by cutting off all human resources. He is a jealous God. He wants you to see that what has been proposed within you only he can do.
Surrender to his designs. Let yourself be guided by where he wants to take you. Be careful when you seek the help of people when God does not want you to do so. Remember that they can only offer you what he offers for you. You must seder all your will to God so that he can transform you completely.
What is the benefit of the tests that the cross of life brings?
Are you experiencing tests? The tests that come from the cross of life, God has allowed them to happen because you need them. He knows how to choose them. You yourself would not have been able to choose what God brings to your life through the cross. If the Lord let you choose The Cross that you would choose to strengthen your own will instead of demolishing it.
The benefit is that you will grow in the call that God has determined. the structures will be torn down, and God will establish his celestial designs in your life as a believer, codify all the areas of your spirit and soul, to form a man, or a woman with eternity and authority to govern.
What is God's purpose in your life?
The purpose of God is to form a character, you need to be tested in all areas of your life, for what God will do in your life, do you know what is the greatest benefit of shifting the cross of life? may God place his trust in you, by obedience and by giving up what costs more and that is the will.
When God has plans and purposes with a man he will take him to a total death, to resurrect him in the new man he wants to raise, God does not give his power lightly, first he goes through a filter to get the best out of him, not topics in the tests if you are in the search, trust that God, with great compassion, offers you evidence in proportion to the help you want to provide.
There is no doubt that the life of faith is the most subtle death of all.
To what extent will you be tested?
God will test you little by little in all areas of your life, but he will not let your tribulations be more than you can bear. Let God use the tests to help you grow. Do not try to measure your progress, your strength, or what God is doing.
His work is no less efficient because of the invisibility of his action. Much of God's work is done in secret, because you would not die to yourself if God always extended his hand visibly to save you. God does not transform you into a mattress of light, life, and grace.
His transformation is made in the cross, in darkness, poverty, and death. What questions do you have about the truth of Christianity? You are very afraid of submitting yourself to someone other than yourself. You are also afraid to walk the difficult path that leads to being conformed to the image of Christ.
You see perfectly the sacrifices that you will have to make to follow Christ completely, and you fall back. Christ did not say, "If anyone should follow after me, let him enjoy himself, let him be clothed with precious garments, and let him be drunk with delights." He never even said, "content to be perfect and see how you do things well. "No! ...
Jesus said, "If anyone comes after me, let him deny himself, let him take up his cross, and follow me." (Matthew 16:24)
You still can not see the kind face of following Christ. You watch what he takes away, but you do not see what he gives. You exaggerate the sacrifices and you ignore the blessings. Pablo tells you that your desire is to be dressed, but it is necessary that you be stripped before you can put on Christ.
Let me stripped your self-love of every garment so that you can receive the white clothes washed in the blood of the Lamb. You only need His purity. Listen to what I have to tell you. It is not easy to hear. However, it will nourish your spirit.
It is necessary that the death levels come to your life, so that the purpose of God is fulfilled, the measure used by God is according to the support of loads that you can carry, and what will make it lighter will be the relationship you have with the father.
If you give up your will - the kingdom will live within you.
Do not listen to the voice that suggests that you live for yourself. The voice of self-love is even more powerful than the voice of the serpent. If the world did not demand for itself more than he himself could offer for love, would not he still be a better teacher? Christ does not leave gaps in you.
You will be guided to do things that please you, and you will like them more than the things that have set you apart. How happy you will be when you have nothing of yours and offer yourself completely to your Lord.
Bride of Jesus, how precious you are when you no longer possess anything of your own, but only seek their beauty. Then you will be the delight of your boyfriend, and he will be all your beauty! will love you without limits. It will deposit its own life in you.
Carrying the cross with simplicity, without letting your love add any kind of inconvenience, will make your life easier. When you accept the cross and only allow it to do the work that God had procured, you will be happy because you will see that good fruit is produced in you. When you love God you will not care what you must suffer in His name. The cross of life will transform you into the image of your beloved. Here is the true consolation, the true bond of love.
When you accept the cross of life in love, His kingdom begins to live within you. You must carry the cross and be satisfied with what pleases God. You need the cross. The faithful giver of every good gift offers you the cross of his own hand.
I pray that you will see how much blessing lies in being corrected for your own good. Paul says, "God loves a cheerful giver." How much must he love those who joyfully indulge in their dealings?