Deacon Hui Zhen - 3 April 2014
Be Holy Spirit Filled And Submit Joyfully
A desire to submit without really doing so often ends up in a compromise. An unintervened compromise lives off the grace of God, but also loses that same grace at the same time. Submission is not about whether we can carry out certain truth of God, it is a state of our living – one that is constantly Holy spirit-filled, one that is living in the grace of the Lord. A joyful submission led by the Holy Spirit will surely bring subsequent submissions in Christ, as each submission not only gives one joy but also strengthens one from the inner being.
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Sufferings in the Presence of Divine Relationship
What really torments a Christian during sufferings? There are countless answers to this question. Yet, the most direct and underlying reason behind this torment is a Christian’s “sense of abandonment”. It simply feels like, “NO ONE is on my side anymore. No one can understand or can help me. Even God has forsaken me because of my sins and mistakes. I am left alone to face the frightening consequences.” Truly, when we accept such deceptive voices into our spirit, every twinge of pain seems punitive and endless. We will try to make sense of everything except the love of God.
In the Bible, even the blameless Job could not make any sense of his sufferings. Therefore, God, in one of His greatest revelations, has given us <Romans 8>. This glorious chapter in the Bible seeks to address the sense of abandonment that children of God may experience during pain and sufferings. So yield your mind not to what you feel, but to the truth especially such times.
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