First, undo things in your life before you can serve God: 1 Peter 4:1-2:
Posted by Ed in Christianity, tags: 1 Peter1 Peter 4:1-2:
“Think of your sufferings as a weaning from the old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you’ll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.”
My thoughts on this verse:
Much of who we might be and what we do is contrary to God, but when we live in faith, humility and obedience to Him, He begins to work on us, slowly peeling away all that which is contrary to Him and what he wants for us.
Maybe it needs to be a different career path that He needs to force us into. Maybe its health problems He needs to take us through in order to force us to eat and live the way he wants (and the way that is best for us). Maybe its relationships with others he needs to break us away from.
Career change, health issues, breaking relationships – these are painful processes. A great example is Moses, who lived his early life being groomed for possible king of the greatest power on earth at the time, but was ripped away from all that and lived quite a different life as a shepherd in the desert over the next 4 decades, a time which was used to help prepare him for what God needed him to do.
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