Day 635 – We did everything right…
Saturday July 10, 2021…
11:20 am…
…two days ago, I ran into a family who inspired great empathy in me.
They said they’d lived by God’s way for many years but had renounced their faith.
They’d done everything right by God.
Read the Bible as God leads.
Served in Kingdom ministry as God leads.
Got married as God leads.
Had children as God leads.
But then, they’d been struck with adversity.
Mighty blow after mighty blow, they’d seen the harshness of an unfair world strip them down to the point where a decade’s worth of agonising situations taught them a new lesson.
They knew they had to walk away from the faith.
Journeying with the Judeo-Christian God is one of the hardest decisions to make in this life.
It should never be mistaken for the false Christianity that says “everything is happy from here on,” misinterpreted for God being a genie, or reduced to the idea that it’s a selfish choice, suiting the individual’s preferences…
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