God reminded us during prayer that we all need to be patient and enduring until His appointed time for any thing or any reason. As we wait, patience matures us. He further reminded us that the road we walk is not easy but difficult. It is a road that requires one to carry their own cross. He said the servant is not greater than the Master and therefore we must walk the same road.
The servant is not greater than the Master so do not expect your life or the road to heaven to be easier or comfortable. If we literally carried a cross on our backs, it would be very heavy, we would get very tired, and we would have to negotiate it around corners and areas. There will be many times when we feel like putting it down for a rest. But this is the danger. Many have placed it down for a rest but they failed to pick it back up and have taken the road of religion or the wide road.
John 13:14-17 If I then, your Lord and Teacher (Master), have washed your feet, you ought [it is your duty, you are under obligation, you owe it] to wash one another's feet. 15For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do [in your turn] what I have done to you.16I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, A servant is not greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to the one who sent him.17If you know these things, blessed and happy and [c]to be envied are you if you practice them [if you act accordingly and really do them].
When Jesus came in the flesh, He did not come to take the easy road and to wave a wand and said "It is Finished!" He came to do the Father's Will. It would be a difficult road of sacrifice, pain, and suffering. He came to die so many would live.
When we accept Jesus Christ, it is not an like assembly line in which so many religious institutions have made it to be. It is not a waving of a wand to say, "Ok, you are now saved and you may go back to what you were doing."
It is a decision to now do the Father's will, to take up their own crosses, and die to self and literally die for others if necessary. All your old personal plans and goals must now be placed at the foot of the cross to do the Father's Will. We cannot serve two masters. Make a choice to fully surrender and fully commit so that you may be closer to worshiping in Spirit and Truth.
Luke 14:27 (AMP) Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.
Fire of God!
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