Faith and trust are inextricably connected. Trust and obedience are also concepts which are in that category and of course all of our actions should proceed from a regenerated heart which loves the Lord.
Many get caught up in the loop of the logic of "predestination" which I hate to even bring up having caused endless and often counterproductive discussions in my opinion. My point here is that enduring to the end cannot be dismissed as a struggle even with God's predetermined outcome. Nothing is in a vacuum here; an atheist may well look at the idea of our concept of God as being very cruel and vindictive with outcomes preplanned but hopefully as believers we understand how God chastises everyone He loves; and purges those branches not bearing fruit to produce MORE fruit (am afraid I will lose this page again looking for these references so I will leave it to the reader to search the scriptures).
Enduring to the end and being saved of course isn't something we can do on our own. This is particularly hard it seems for those who are bent toward a "type A" or take charge personality. We are stripped of all of our earthly confidence when the heat is applied in life's trials.
A huge indicator of saving faith is those who prefer to accept at face value the Spirit's evaluation of their walk on a daily basis and are content to suffer loss in whatever is necessary to live as Christ's disciple in this wicked world. Today I am convinced the house of God is being judged; certainly this latest news about the church of England shows how late in the game we are in (let the reader search this issue). It seems as I have stated often that those who are professing Christians are our greatest foes these days; whether a congregation is heading towards a politically correct doctrine (and that can affect both sides of the political spectrum). There is wheat and chaff everywhere today; we are to avoid places where it is ONLY chaff.
I thought I'd mention to you that if you don't already have a data writing tool on your computer you might want to download one. There are a lot of free ones. The one I have is Libre Office Writer and it's free but very good. I type most of my posts on there first, then copy to this discussion page and submit. That way I can proof read it and know it's what I want to say. Then when I go to search for something I don't have to worry about loosing what I have already typed.
Since this site doesn't use italics, bold or a lot of caps etc. those won't transfer over too here but I find it a lot easier to write what I want to say more accurately. It has very helpful tools like spellcheck and a number count of words you've typed, etc. It is really a good data writer, especially for free. I hope this idea may help you. God Bless :)
Faith and trust are inextricably connected. Trust and obedience are also concepts which are in that category and of course all of our actions should proceed from a regenerated heart which loves the Lord.
Many get caught up in the loop of the logic of "predestination" which I hate to even bring up having caused endless and often counterproductive discussions in my opinion. My point here is that enduring to the end cannot be dismissed as a struggle even with God's predetermined outcome. Nothing is in a vacuum here; an atheist may well look at the idea of our concept of God as being very cruel and vindictive with outcomes preplanned but hopefully as believers we understand how God chastises everyone He loves; and purges those branches not bearing fruit to produce MORE fruit (am afraid I will lose this page again looking for these references so I will leave it to the reader to search the scriptures).
Enduring to the end and being saved of course isn't something we can do on our own. This is particularly hard it seems for those who are bent toward a "type A" or take charge personality. We are stripped of all of our earthly confidence when the heat is applied in life's trials.
A huge indicator of saving faith is those who prefer to accept at face value the Spirit's evaluation of their walk on a daily basis and are content to suffer loss in whatever is necessary to live as Christ's disciple in this wicked world. Today I am convinced the house of God is being judged; certainly this latest news about the church of England shows how late in the game we are in (let the reader search this issue). It seems as I have stated often that those who are professing Christians are our greatest foes these days; whether a congregation is heading towards a politically correct doctrine (and that can affect both sides of the political spectrum). There is wheat and chaff everywhere today; we are to avoid places where it is ONLY chaff.
Good Post.
I thought I'd mention to you that if you don't already have a data writing tool on your computer you might want to download one. There are a lot of free ones. The one I have is Libre Office Writer and it's free but very good. I type most of my posts on there first, then copy to this discussion page and submit. That way I can proof read it and know it's what I want to say. Then when I go to search for something I don't have to worry about loosing what I have already typed.
Since this site doesn't use italics, bold or a lot of caps etc. those won't transfer over too here but I find it a lot easier to write what I want to say more accurately. It has very helpful tools like spellcheck and a number count of words you've typed, etc. It is really a good data writer, especially for free. I hope this idea may help you. God Bless :)
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