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Sometimes people get the false notion that when we make sacrifices and offerings to God that our life will go easier and God will give us more in return. There are times when that holds true, but there are other times when the exact opposite happens. Sometimes we find that our sacrifices are returned with requests for even more.
Perhaps that you have found God asking more from you than you had planned to give. Perhaps you have found that in the darkness of Lent, things have gotten darker.
If that is what you have found, remember John the Baptist who spent his whole life telling people to get right with God and follow the one to come after him; Jesus. Then he ends up in a Roman prison questioning his own teachings by sending some of his followers to ask Jesus if he really was the Messiah.
Soon after, John was beheaded even after all he gave.
A question that is worth asking yourself sometimes is whether or not you would serve God even if the rest of you life was filled with darkness or do you just follow and serve Him when He sends you sunshine and rainbows.
Sometimes people get the false notion that when we make sacrifices and offerings to God that our life will go easier and God will give us more in return. There are times when that holds true, but there are other times when the exact opposite happens. Sometimes we find that our sacrifices are returned with requests for even more.
Perhaps that you have found God asking more from you than you had planned to give. Perhaps you have found that in the darkness of Lent, things have gotten darker.
If that is what you have found, remember John the Baptist who spent his whole life telling people to get right with God and follow the one to come after him; Jesus. Then he ends up in a Roman prison questioning his own teachings by sending some of his followers to ask Jesus if he really was the Messiah.
Soon after, John was beheaded even after all he gave.
A question that is worth asking yourself sometimes is whether or not you would serve God even if the rest of you life was filled with darkness or do you just follow and serve Him when He sends you sunshine and rainbows.
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