Topic: Not The Easy Road

The road of Christ is not the easy road with fame and fortune. The road of Christ is narrow, hard, difficult, and will likely be without payoff until after you die. Unfortunately, within the kingdom of God on earth, the popular talk of our current age is "You can get and have anything you want with God." However, the truth is you may never get and you may never have on earth anything you want with God. Within the kingdom of God on earth, the popular talk of our current age is "You deserve a break today." However, in total truth, no, you don't deserve a break today. If you really deserved a break today from God, there would be no need for grace. Grace is what you get when you don't deserve a break today. Grace is what you receive in place of a break today. Grace is the forgiveness you receive from God when you don't deserve forgiveness. From God, because of His grace, you can receive everlasting life when you don't deserve everlasting life. When the United States was being built, when the country was new, just about all people did was sacrifice. The frontier families in the U.S. made an enormous sacrifice to build the nation. Nearly all of the people in the early stages of the nation's history died young. Many of the frontier families lost children in death. Many of these families knew starvation and hunger. Today, most of the family problems, job problems, social problems, business problems, and the other problems in the kingdom of God are the result of people not wanting to sacrifice to make things better.

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