tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658323433451362810.post4051752543072458114..comments2011-10-17T23:06:45.073-07:00Comments on Devotions Daily: Don't Doubt DanielEric Archer, IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804085861770737686noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658323433451362810.post-46717015388891531222010-11-12T23:00:01.190-08:002010-11-12T23:00:01.190-08:00Dedicating ourselves to a righteous walk with God ...Dedicating ourselves to a righteous walk with God takes much more than sinning so it's not something the majority are going to do. Yet, God does reward us for our faithfulness. <br /><br />Look at Abraham. He had faith in God, and it was counted towards him for righteousness.<br /><br />God tells us that "Many are the afflictions of the righteous" and "Don't be weary in well doing for we shall reap if we faint not." He didn't say those things for no reason. He knew saying yes to him would me having to say no to the world and having to crucify our flesh daily.<br /><br />I don't know about you, but I don't know of anything that was crucified (besides Christ himself) that didn't make a sound as they were being crucified. <br /><br />So again I say, God knew we would have trials and tribulations. He called them "light afflictions." He also said that in this world we could have houses and lands and the hundredfold blessing...but he didn't stop there. He said "With hundredfold persecutions." That's why so many of us never reap the blessing or the harvest. We get weary in well doing. We can't take the hurt, pain, humiliation, lonliness, et cetera of the hundredfold persecutions. Yet, if we just hold on and know that Jesus is praying for us just as he did for Peter, we too shall obtain the crown.<br /><br />Love ya, babe. Stay in the fight. Stay in the press. It may not feel good, but (to paraphrase the Bible) the troubles of this world are not worthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed in us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com