Today’s study is practical and hard hitting for me. My ‘what if…’ list of what could happen gets my fear generator going. I can easily slide into my anxiety mode when life is uncertain or I think of the changing cultural climate. I then imagine a teacher thumping me on the head saying ‘Don’t go there!’ ‘God has always been faithful! He has promised to NEVER leave you or abandon you. He is overflowing with love and He will guide you’. If God brought you to the issue, He will lead you through it.
“In order to be united with him, the will must consequently be emptied of and detached from all disordered appetite and satisfaction with respect to every particular thing in which it can rejoice, whether earthly or heavenly, temporal or spiritual, so that purged and cleansed of all inordinate satisfactions, joys, and appetites it might be wholly occupied in loving God with its affections.” - John of the Cross, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
“The perfecting of God’s love in our lives is usually a matter of several stages. When we were lost, we lived in fear and knew nothing of God’s love. After we trusted Christ, we found a perplexing mixture of both fear and love in our hearts. But as we grew in fellowship with the Father, gradually the fear vanished, and our hearts were controlled by His love alone. An immature Christian is tossed between fear and love; a mature Christian rests in God’s love.” - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe
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