We humans tend to be so short-sighted.
Especially Americans.
Gratification, comfort, our way . . . yesterday . . . at bargain prices or free . . . me, me, me!
God is FIRST, FOREMOST, ALWAYS . . .
AND HE IS training rulers FOR ETERNITY.
One goal . . . that we might bear a greater weight of glory as we rule and reign with Christ.
. . . that the pains . . . the worst of this life . . . is
not worthy
to be compared to the glories of the next is still unfathomable . . . foundationally unfathomable to our finiteness.
The first shall be last and the last first . . . .
And Rick Joyner’s vision of the cloak of humility . . . much food for thought and growth, there.
IIRC he noted that if we let that cloak slip . . . we’ll be vulnerable to being picked off by the arrows of the enemy and out of the battle . . . in this dimension.
Yup. We’re spoiled brats, as my mother and now my husband, would say.