Trouble Don’t Mean You’re Counted Out!
One of the greatest misconceptions we can face as Christians is believing that when we face divers circumstances that somehow God is mad at us, and when everything is smooth sailing, it means that He is pleased with us. Circumstances don’t always convey what is actually going on in your life:
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? …37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Romans 8:35, 37 (NLT)
There are countries where trouble is a natural by-product of claiming the Name of Christ. Not only are laws in place that will put you in jail if you are a believing Christian, but sometimes it could mean torture and even death. To say that somehow God is mad at those who hold up the blood stained banner in the midst of persecution would not be true. The Bible even speaks of those righteous ones who will stand at the judgement seat who were martyred for the sake of Christ.
Conversely those who can name it and claim it and get it, may find that they will appear before the judgement seat and Jesus will say, “depart from me, I never knew you.”
We are not the judge or the jury. We take the Word of God by faith and to the best of our ability we live out the righteousness of God that Jesus’ death for our sins placed in us. One of my favorite scriptures that I hold onto is:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (KJV)
If we have died to Christ, our resurrection is in Him.
Maria
Thank you so much for that message. Many of us need to hear this!
I never want to think where I’d be without Christ living in the inside of me.