(Wed.) It's a Hard Knock Life For Us...

"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
Theodore Roosevelt

Ask anybody older than you…life is hard. It just is, and being a christian does not make it any easier. In fact, the bible says that being called to Christ means certain pain. We can’t live long with out falling short of the mark, or failing in some way. So what happens when that happens.

Genisis Chapter 3
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Consequences & Repercussions, That’s what!! But what do you do? Do you quit? We don’t. Why, because Christ becomes our curse. He takes the hit for us. It may hurt day to day in this so-called life, but Jesus took the eternal hit when He died on a tree for our sin.

Galatians Chapter 3
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

So, Jesus became our curse, so what do we do with this hard knock life? We live it. We live out our calling, purpose, priesthood, “hero-hood”, whatever you want to call it, with all our heart and we do this with a sense of courage and with the very serious understanding that we will fall short & we will see pain, but we will be victorious in Christ!

"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."
Theodore Roosevelt

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