We leave tomorrow for Des Moines and Sioux Center. We are excited to be joining Joyce's family for Mom Vermeer's 95th birthday. We understand there are some flooding issues in NW Iowa and SW Minnesota. Hopefully we'll be able to avoid all of that in getting to our destination. So there will not be any more soul work writings until after July 1 or 2. The following is from A Guide To Prayer for All God's People.
"It is neither easy nor simple to translate our commitment to Christ into the living of our days. It does not happen instantaneously or automatically, but it is instead a process of growth and development, including reversals. retreats, detours, beginning over, and moving ahead. We need such an understanding of our journey at the very outset because there are those who claim otherwise, who promote the new life in Christ as a kind of idyllic state of spiritual perfection in which there are no doubts, uncertainties, stumblings, or times of falling away. Such claims are simply not true, are very misleading, and result in unnecessary anguish and discouragement."
The life of commitment to Christ for me has indeed been and is a process as described above with ups and downs, positives and negatives, questions and answers and more questions without answers. It has been an exciting journey, or to quote one of my old church members, "its been quite a trip". So grateful for God's grace and the assurance I do not have to have the answers to other people's doubts and questions. So I hope this can encourage you wherever you are on the spectrum of commitment to Christ. As Jesus was there for Thomas the doubter, Peter the denier and I assume for Judas the betrayer Jesus will be there for you also. Jesus promised to never leave or forsake us. This is Good News and I embrace it.
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