Hopeful these might enrich your soul.
From Oswald Chambers and My Utmost for his Highest
"To be so much in contact with God that you never need to ask God to show you God's will is to be nearing the final stage of your discipline in the life of faith. When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and liberty and delight, you are God's will, and all your common-sense decisions are God's will for you unless God checks (I think that's British for negates and says no.) You decide things in perfect delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong God will always check; when God checks, stop at once."
"When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again." Warren Wiersbe, Christian author and theologian
" Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say - Father, save me from this hour? No, it is for this very reason that I have come to this hour." Jesus in John 12 speaking about the cross
Jesus will do the will of God whatever the cost or consequences. Holy Spirit help me do the same. Help me be faithful to the call of God on my life whatever the cost or consequences.
Hebrews 5:7-10 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a]
offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the
one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of
his reverent submission. 8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, 10 having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Amazing - Jesus was heard by the one who could save him from death yet he suffered the agonizing death of the cross and thereby was used by God as the means of eternal salvation which you will note is conditioned by the act of obedience. I stand in awe and wonder overwhelmed by both the complexity and simplicity of the experience.
There has to be a hymn that goes along with all of this but that escapes me and I have no time left for research into the matter.
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