Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine. If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.