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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
So this quote by WL is a little troubling in that it seems to make it sound like it is God's good pleasure to crush us (see bolded in quote above). Mature Christians know the Lord will use everything to set us free and gain more of our hearts. And oftentimes the medicine is not that tasty to us, but the goal is always good, and needed, and done in agape love. "Perfect love casts out all fear, because fear involves torment."
Yesterday the Lord gave me a small appreciation for how He has set me free. "It is for freedom that Christ has set you free!" (Gal 5:1) His burden is easy, His yoke is light. Anything that feels heavy and onerous and burdensome and condemning and discouraging - this is not the freedom He has brought us into!
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Yep, and you've just hit the nail on the head of what a particular subset of church kids have lived under for several decades of their life into adulthood - that it's God's good pleasure to crush us.
What a poisonous, acid-dripping, caustic lie from the devil, liberally spread throughout the local church. It just makes me mad.
There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
No condemnation! Think of how much condemnation came from and comes from the ministry and the co-workers over the saints about their condition, absoluteness, lack of being in the ministry, lack of migration, etc, etc.
But.......
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free!
Why did He set us free?
So we would actually, really be free!!!
Awesome.