Is Life About Sacrifice & Suffering? Part 1 (TMF:1081)

Monday, March 11, 2019
Peace to Live By: Is Life About Sacrifice & Suffering? Part 1 (TMF:1081) - Daniel Litton
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       Perhaps you’re one of those Christian individuals who feels that God wants you to enjoy life, to have a good life, but those around you are all about self-induced suffering. They may believe life is all about sacrifice and suffering, and there certainly is some of that in life. But if you don’t sacrifice and suffer as much as they do, or as much as they think you should, they tell you that you are living in a wrong way. They get jealous of you because you don’t live your life that way—you enjoy the life that God has given you, and you still keep the commands of God. A lot of times these pro-suffering brothers and sisters don’t follow all the motivational speeches that they themselves give for others. They get on emotional highs, wanting to sacrifice greatly for the kingdom of God, and they tell everyone listening that they should too. Then you go to their house the next night and find them watching the baseball game. This is unfortunate because surely they end up beating themselves up for not doing enough good, for not living up to their own personal standard—not God’s—and then they feel God doesn’t approve of them. But he never said they had to do all of those things they placed on themselves in the first place.