Lots of pertinent stuff in today's devotion. My favorite line reads, "Beware of letting your natural desires hinder your walk in love before God. One of the cruelest ways to kill natural love is through the rejection that results from having built the love on natural desires."
Today's lesson comes from the wonderful world of self-sacrifice. For me, self-sacrifice can come easy for strangers, but hard for the people that I know, especially God. I love to tell myself that I will be the ultimate Christian. You know the type: goes to church more than twice a week, prays every day and reminds everyone of it, gives an offering weekly. I think I could be that person. But I always think that I could only be that person if God gave me...(Fill in the blank). What makes this frustrating is that I know that even if God were to give me said "blank," I would still want more and more, never reaching a point of satisfaction.
I guess I find it hard to believe that Jesus and I are friends. Normally, friendship is based on a relationship of trust and time, none of which I suppose I truly have experienced in the church. However, on the flip side, I think it would be hard to be a friend with someone that you have the ability to control their life. For example, if I won the lottery, I often think what will my friends and family think of me. Would they expect great gifts for Christmas, or could I get away with the $20 limit? Would they hit me up for money, justifying these claims with "But you have so much money. Why can't you give me a hundred bucks?" So I guess playing the role of Jesus in a friendship with any Man would truly be difficult. He could make our life so amazing, blessing us with riches and power. But what would that teach us? It would teach us to want more, creating greed and lust, both of which are bad things.
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