This is an amazing idea to ponder. Do we want Christ for His sake or do we want Christ for our own sake? Are our desires to follow Him or is our desire to have Him give us what we want? Is our affection truly for Jesus or something else? Honestly, it is a struggle isn't it?
Look at the list of ways that Paul describes as commending himself: great endurance, afflictions, hardship, difficulties, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleeplessness, hunger, purity, etc. This is not the list someone gives when recruiting others to their cause! This is generally not a list that we associate with following Christ! Yet this is Paul's list.
It certainly should cause us to pause and wonder. Are we truly in it for Christ sake? Do we want what He wants or something else?
No comments:
Post a Comment