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Do we think that by withdrawing from the world, by separating ourselves, that we will become more pious and that this will help us consecrate ourselves by removing all temptation? Well this is a false hope, and if we look at Jesus we understand that He inserted Himself fully into the world. He didn’t run from it, no, He overcame it.
When we first speak to someone about Jesus Christ what do we say? Do we talk to them about how He heals, or casts out demons? No, I dare say that we talk first and foremost about how Jesus died to redeem the sins of the world and the hope that this provides each of us. We speak of the gospel of Christ, and the love of God His Father who sent Him to redeem us.
When we are young in Christ, God holds us close to Him, and tends to us like a mother does her child, but as we age in faith we grow spiritually, and our lessons become more difficult, while likewise, the price we pay to learn them increases. So it is that we suffer from time to time, but there is one way that we can reduce the intensity of our trials, and be led gently by the Lord… come to Him with new lambs in Christ. Like a shepherd watches closely over his ewes, so does God watches over us when we come to Him with our young in Jesus.
Have you ever been rescued by the Lord when you were on the verge of death? Sometimes it might be by a subtle working of circumstances, sometimes by sending a person, or Heavenly Angel, to do the job, like God did for Peter, but then there are other occasions when either He, or Jesus, show up personally to perform a miraculous rescue. Yet, in all of these amazing moments it is clearly the hand of God at work, and He has a message, or plan for us in those moments. Was your life ever spared? Did you know immediately why? Were you perplexed for a time regarding why you were rescued before at last His purpose was revealed to you? Are you still asking yourself why? Miracles happen, and none more intense than when our lives are saved in this way… by a miracle.