LEADING DEAF PATHS

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PERSECUTION .

Romans 8:36.

As it is written:

“ For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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 Daily , Jesus carried a cross. He was looked for by the evil gangs. Yet he watched daily.
Being Christlike , doesn't just mean doing the good that Christ did and thereby have luxuries daily.

Being Christlike means wearing the type of shoes that Christ used to wear. The shoes of persecution.
Many Christians think that when we confess Christ as our Lord and savior, that is ends of trouble. Trouble in itself is not an end. Trials and persecution are a means to an end.

We don't suffer in this world and that that is our destiny. We suffer in this world to achieve the glories to come. 
It is therefore a Christian rule that there should be persecution every day. And such persecution is for the sake of Christ. When the above verse says that it is for the sake of Christ, it means that just because we have Him, we have to face death all day long. 

Now, there should be suffering that is differentiated between believers and non believers. The non believers face the suffering that is to the worldly glories...and that is the end. However, the believers' suffering is for the glories that are everlasting...yet also to have prosperity as God blesses them on earth.
One thing I have realized is that we cannot become the best version of our selves if we are not made to face death all day long.

Just imagine you were stopped by traffic officer, and all the officer does is abuse you just because you don't have a clearance of taxes. It's there that some realise that they are good war mongers by abusing the officer in turn. But also to some, they will realize they can handle bad people when they simply keep calm and request for a pardon.

It is such death all day long that unleashes what exactly lies deep within you.
However much we are like sheep, however much we are pressed; there is a better person within us that is being leashed.

                   GOD BLESS YOU

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