And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Jesus (sharing His inheritance with Him); only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons at all.
I am a Follower in hell, and I have no interest in false, hollow or elementary cooings about Jesus. This is not a blog for diaper wearers or the spiritually sensitive. For those who wish to be goochy-gooed about Jesus, there are plenty of those types of blogs elsewhere in pattycake cyberworld.
2 comments:
Ok, some questions about this verse. Not for you, but just to consider. Why is it that some people get more "discipline" than others? Or that some people seem to get disciplined at all while others can go around acting like assholes for a really long time and get away with it? Why is that? Is it that they get doled out the same and they have thicker skin, (harder hearts) so they ignore it better? Is it that God loves some more than others? I would like to be privy to that information. It seems to me like God is always banging me against some rock or another and I would like to know if he does the same with everyone because I have no desire to be "special". So I guess the big big question is "IS GOD FAIR?" Then you say well God created whatever concept we have of fair, how could he not be fair? How the heck should I know?! I'm just a stupid sheep that wants to see like a hawk!
I don't know. I don't know where this is being preached. Hence the "Buehler"...
Oh, and wouldn't it be just like someone to say "well, you haven't heard about XYZ Church. We're different."
ZZZzzzzzZZZZZZZZzzzZZZZzzzzz....SQUISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yawn.
Next.
I really don't have ANYTHING to say to your questions, except you are not an illegitimate child. You are an heir with Jesus.
Big whoop tee doo, right?
I just can't get away from these verses nor the circumstances of my existence. (I'm tired of calling it "life".)
By that I mean that I don't see the Body, on this continent, living the Way.
To me the Way is....suffering.
And yet here we are with an entire Body who thinks only the hero of the religion is the one who had to suffer.
He suffered so that we don't have to.
We can skip straight to the ice cream.
Glory hallelujah.
Funny how Jesus said "follow Me", isn't it?
Today's Body takes that to mean "embrace my philosophy, my words, my principles."
Jesus says "No. When I say that I mean I want you to follow in My footsteps. When the rubber met the road, I showed you what it is to drink the bitter cup.
I showed you what it is to be poured out like a drink offering.
Now, I want you to do the same. Follow in My footsteps and do the same."
We take 'follow Me' as something the Followers in Asia and Europe and Africa are to do. Not us.
When Jesus says "I am with you always", we take that to mean He's with us when we can't decide on the burgundy or forest green couch we're buying for our living room.
My fellow sufferer, God's handprint is upon and in your life. To our suffering and death.
As a mark of inheritance, but we're also told that only those of us enduring to the very end will be saved.
Jesus says that three or four times, so that our suffering not become empty.
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