As I write this, I’m fighting back tears that have been threatening to spill for a few days. Growing pains hurt, and when you’re faced with having to swallow your pride constantly, obey authority, and listen to wise instruction, your heart groans for relief from sinful depravity and the natural want to rebel.
1 Peter 2:21-25
21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,[f] leaving us[g] an example, that you should follow His steps:
22 “ Who committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;[h]
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls
Having gained access to the Holy Place through the Lamb slain, to be greeted by the Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Spirit connecting us to Christ the Word, and the Holy incense of the Universal Church’s prayers being offered up into the presence of the King, with much fear and trepidation we repent and die to sin daily so that we may live unto righteousness.
Blessings are abundant; comfort and relief abound in the arms of the Savior.
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