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Why Do I Have To Learn Everything The Hard Way?

7/6/2021

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Here are a few perspectives and principles that I have learned the last 50 years. I learned them the hard way.

1) Who you are as a believer is more important than what you do.

If we are not in tune…We can build an alternative reality of success instead of wholeness, but it is a fantasy. Get with God and gut this stuff out now, while there are those around you to help.

T. Kempis, a 14th century Monk in writing words of encouragement and correction to young monks entering the monastery said “…if I am outwardly admonished and not interiorly set on fire I may die and find that my life was without fruit, and at the moment of judgment I may be condemned for hearing the word but not fulfilling it, knowing it but not loving it, for believing it but not living it.”

Who you are as a believer is more important than what you do.

2) Self-sufficiency is a trap.

Dependence on ‘self’ leads to prayerlessness. You will find, and it will be a good day when you find it, that having confidence in your flesh is just an illusion. Crisis will drive you to your knees and ultimately flat on your face. And when you cry out and mean it when you say, “Oh God, I can’t do it”…He’ll be there. When you can no longer hold on, He’ll hold on to you. Again, to quote Kempis: “If you are looking for knowledge and learning that is useful to you, then love to be unknown…”

Self-sufficiency is a trap.

3) Don’t fear the crucible event that is coming.

The word crucible means: a situation of severe trial. At some point in your life you will experience, if you haven’t already, an event that changes you. Don’t be afraid…what you do with that life-altering event will reveal who you really are. And it’s good to know who you are and it’s good to find out that you are really stronger than you think you are.
To quote Kempis one more time, “…you must not become dejected nor give into despair… Remember, after winter comes the summer, after night comes the morning, and after the storm comes the great calm.”

-Susan Bozarth
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  • Home
  • About
    • Statement of Faith
    • What We Do
    • Chad Bozarth
    • Susan Bozarth
    • Melody Downey
  • Blog
  • Missionary Directory
  • Associate Missionaries
    • Global Missions >
      • Bryan and Dorie McLemore
      • Comella Nicholes
      • Kayla Cossaboom
      • Makenna McLemore
      • Pam Anderson
      • Willie & Alicia Hernandez (Global Expression)
    • North America >
      • Jim & Tami Essmyer
      • Samuel Sim
    • Caribbean >
      • Curaçao >
        • John and Solange Tranel
      • Jamaica >
        • Jeanette Priestley
    • Central America >
      • El Salvador >
        • Beth Thomson
        • Danny and Gelmarie Montes
        • David Carbajal
        • David & Kathy Knepper
        • Esther’s Heart (El Salvador)
        • Kurt Ackermann & Family
        • Ryan & Melissa Humphrey
    • South America >
      • Brazil >
        • Clayton and Ainne Gonçalves
        • Flavio & Luciana Piassi
      • Colombia >
        • Christopher Loard
    • Europe >
      • Austria >
        • Bill and Ada Wiisanen
        • Cesar and Simone Sotomayor
      • France >
        • Raymond Ontiveros
      • Germany >
        • Gerhard Lewerenz (Refugee Ministry)
      • Poland >
        • Adam and Agnieszka Piątkowski
        • Marek & Marysia Kiewra
        • Michal and Iza Wlodarczyk
        • Piotr Bigus
      • Romania >
        • Samuel Caba
      • Russia >
        • Dana & Tanya Carbone
        • Natalia Schedrivaya
      • Spain >
        • Timothy & Astrid Pitter
    • Africa >
      • Botswana >
        • Jona Pettijohn
      • West Africa >
        • Terry Theall
      • DR Congo and Burundi >
        • Dedani Mwemedi Echasa
      • Nigeria >
        • OASIS Project (Nigeria)
      • Uganda >
        • In Memory of Sheila Wier
    • Asia >
      • India >
        • Christopher Stanley and Salome Bantu
        • Vimal & Hannah Chinnam
      • Philippines >
        • James Dutra
      • Southeast Asia >
        • Sherry (Konczak) & Eric Anderson
    • Oceania >
      • Australia >
        • Tak Siong Lau
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      • Kimberly Hilton
      • Esera & Brittany Tauai
      • Sergio Menjivar
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