Day 24

 

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“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS."

 

The attitude of a lot in the church seems to be; except the Lord and your whole life will be a rose garden.

But they forget that when the Lord created roses they all had thorns.

 

Being a Christian is not a life of happy happy joy joy it is a life of pain and suffering, Jesus told us to expect to be treated the same way He was treated. And how was Jesus treated?

He was betrayed, spit upon, ridiculed, beaten and crucified, why should you expect any better if you are declaring Christ and His ways to the world.

 

We are told to pray deliver us from the evil one! But that does not mean we are not going to have difficult times, our joy is in the Lord, and no matter what may come to us from this world, in faith we can have joy and peace if our eyes are set on the finish line and not our surroundings.

 

This world is not my home i’m just passing through, keeping my eye on that small gate that leads home.