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Hi all
It's Breadoflife here, I became a Christian in 1985 and have lived through many highs and lows during that time. I have learnt and grown a lot since that time. I have been involved in different facets of Church life from music, youth work, bible studies etc. Even though I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that being a Christian was the greatest thing I had going for me, I still struggled with sin. I would have seasons of life where I would have the upper hand and then all it took was a sequence of unfortunate events/errors in judgement and I would be back in the dumps again. This went on for almost 19 years.
Then in 2004 as I was going through a down time, I stumbled upon a website that suggested that pride was the root to my problem. This took me by surprise as I always considered myself humble. This got me thinking and I began to study pride in the word. I began to realise that one of the greatest forms of pride was not trusting God with every area of my life. I had paid lip service to Jesus being Lord, but He was not on the throne of my life. There were areas in which I constantly overruled Him in the fear that His choices for me would be to my disadvantage. I have since discovered it is because I did not have an adequate revelation of His amazing love.
At this stage, I was fed up with the roller coaster Christian experience, so I just gave up and asked God for His answer to my situation. What followed was an incredible journey of revelation that continues till this day. What I have learnt in the last two years has completely set me free from what I struggled with for the previous 19 years and has allowed me to live in the joy and pleasure of God's love with out fear or condemnation. My relationship with people has been transformed, I can now love them with the love of God and the Word has come alive to me, I no longer have to motivate myself to read the word or pray. It has truly been amazing and my only regret is that It took almost 20 years as a Christian to get this far.
The things I have learnt are not new and all come from the Word. More to the point, they are actually the basic foundations that every Christian should have to experience the "Abundant Life" Christ came to give. Sadly religion has kept these truths from many just like me and so we struggle needlessly while God's grace goes a-begging. The key issue is that we try and live the Christian life rather than let the Christ life express itself through us. God's rest awaits us but first we have to cease from our own efforts.
"So then there remains a rest to the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His." (Hebrews 4:9-10 MKJV). As the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-27 illustrates, we must first journey to the end of our self before we can come home where we belong to enjoy God's abundant provision in Christ. My struggles had brought me to the end of myself and there waiting for me was the truth of God that set me free.
God has impressed upon me to share the things He has shown me to those who are at the end of self and open to God's original plan for the Christ life in us. The purpose of subsequent blogs will be to share my journey from the end of self into the waiting arms of a loving Father. I hope it blesses you in your own journey to the end of self or beyond.
Every Blessing
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