4:41: “Who is with Me? Who is going where I go? Who is willing to pay the price?

“‘What is the price?’ you ask. The price of Loving Me. Letting Me Love you and guide your life – the life I gave you – complete with a destiny designed for you. The price of living in Joy and Peace no matter your circumstances. The price of Victory over all. The price of Freedom from slavery to sin.

“A high price indeed.

“Your ‘price’ is small because Mine was Great. I laid down My Life for you. Your only response to such Love and anything I ask of you should be YES. A very easy YES.

“Yet you make it so hard.

“Look to small children who are loved. They have no trouble trusting their parents. Trust comes naturally to them. A small child only loses trust when he is abused.

“You were once that small child. Trust was built into you, was a natural part of you, because you came from the Father. The world, full of sin, beat trust out of you – trust in Me as well as other people. You grew and learned this world is full of hurts and disappointments – and therefore drew your greatest trust to yourself. Your ‘trust’ became what you could do to make yourself happy. Perhaps you are one who said, ‘How can there be a loving God amidst all this? Why would He allow it?’ This is a question full of pain. Yet beneath it still lies Trust in My existence. For the proof of the Great I AM is all around you in nature, and in the finely woven threads of YOU. The answer to such a question lies in the question itself. A God of Perfect Love does not force Himself on anyone. Allows each person to trust Him – or not. Some say Yes to Him – and reap His benefits. Some use this God-given freedom to question His Love – and refuse to trust. The same freedom to choose that allowed others to sin – and cause pain in the world – allows the questioner to question – and say No to God. Which will lead to his own sin.

“The world is full of ME and My Love. I AM not the problem. Your No – mankind’s No is the problem. Mankind struggles to explain a supernatural God with his finite rationale. A clay pot explaining the plans of its creator.

“STOP. JUST TRUST ME. The reasons for your disappointments lie with all who say No to Me – including yourself. Come back to ME. I will not force the world to change. I WILL give you all you need to walk in Victory despite the world – if you will only say Yes to Me. This choice does not lie with others. This choice lies with YOU.

“I offer you My ALL in exchange for your ALL. ALL means ALL. Hold back no part of yourself. What you hold back cannot see My Victory. What you give to Me shall be Victorious over all. TRUST ME IN THIS.”

“Amen.”
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Notes:

Galatians 5:1: For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 16:33: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Romans 1:19-20: …that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Psalm 139: 14: I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.

Isaiah 40:28: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”

Romans 9:20: On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

Deuteronomy 30:19: “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”

I Corinthians 15:57: But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I John 5:4: For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.