Beautiful!
Don’t just flee evil and endure the suffering from doing so (which is a negative project), but run to the goodness and freedom in God.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is how many who leave behind communism, islam, and homosexuality interpret their experience.
Oh, Vision, it’s just true.
Let’s dare to come back to Jesus as a child. Some of us suffer less, some suffer more. I now know that Satan was on my back from my earliest years... because he knew that God was preparing me to believe like wildfire. He wanted to stop it. He got me twisted in knots. Then God cut, cut, cut patiently over decades... and voila, here I am, still a bit hobbled but nowhere like what I had been and I am on fire!
Here’s something I think about some of the more pathetic sinners we know. These are people with spiritual capacities that Satan has leveraged to tie them up grotesquely. Set those capacities free and you will watch glory like you can scarcely believe.
But we got to dare to love the unlovely to participate in God’s audacious rebuild projects like that. We see huge sin. God sees huge possibilities. Think of how Paul raged against the gospel. Then when set free, Paul “raged” (in love, always!) FOR the gospel!
And to those sinners (really I could go on and on but I try to limit myself to 3 answers or so :-) I say... you’re just saved, now you see a big ole hole in your soul and you can’t seem to muster the strength to defeat a flea... GOOD. GOD FILLS SPIRITUAL HOLES! THERE WILL BE A TREASURE IN THERE SOME DAY, KEEP ON A TRUCKIN’, PRAISE GOD TO THE MAXIMUM AND DON’T LET THAT DEVIL STOP YOU AND YOU WILL WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN!