I'm trying to get into some new habits now we're back. One is reading the day's page from this book when I brush my teeth before I go to bed! It's been a good way so far to close the day. This was from Nov 1st- I keep coming back in my mind to the line "we die a slow death of self-pity" when I'm struggling to get back into life here and tempted to feel a little sorry for myself:
Do you not know...that you are not your own?
1 Cor 6.19
God gets us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why should we not 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 we die a slow death of 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."
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