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Monday, July 23, 2007
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust theirsouls to a faithful Creator while doing good. 1 Peter 4:19 (ESV)
The NIV translation reads this.
'So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful creator and continue to do good.'
someone texted me last night, I dont know you, Im sorry. What you've brought up in the text was disturbing, it threw me out of sorts for abit.Yes. Disturbing to know, disturbing to know that while we live in absolute complacency,indulging in fleeting pleasures that are justified, justified by circumstance- lives are in constant risk, just because they love. Just because they've tried to love. Consciously or not,thats besides the point. They carried with them truth, they've held on to what they believed could bring change.
and yet...
yet the people turned their hearts away. they refused change, because they were convinced change was impossible. because their circumstance had decided it was to be so. Or was it because they felt injustified,was it because they were threatened too? after all, they might have just been trying to protect their own lives.
What a pleasant surprise it was, that my mom and bro would ask that we pray together in intercession for the missionaries who were 'kidnapped in Afghanistan and threatened should Korea not withdrw its troops from the war-torn country'.In addition to that, conversations with a friend which set me thinking... I questioned. I challenge. I grew. I just couldnt... I just couldnt resist the urge to write. I couldnt resist writing, liberated. freedom resounds even while we bleed and cry, because we entrust our souls to a faithful creator, because we commit ourselves to a god that has our best interests at heart, what shall we fear? Because we stand, our lives in constant surrender- If we perish, we perish.
those are not easy words, you know.
thats why god didnt say you've commited. Youve entrusted.
You need to surrender. You need to trust.
If you fall, you fall.
Surrender. Trust.
STORMcity!;
- 10:21 PM