1 Peter 4:12 … The fiery Ordeals (08/24/16)
“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place within you to test you.’” ~ unknown (1 Peter 4:12)
The key in this verse, as is so often the case in the New Testament, is the word “within” … So often we are tempted to judge our lives’ external “difficulties” or “crises” or “tragedies” as ordeals – even though every one of them we have co-created with (or at least co-attracted to) ourselves.
And yet it is the internal “ordeal” that was given to us at conception — the internal struggle between selfish ego and selfless conscience — that forms the psychological & spiritual crucible for our potential rebirth as Children of God; the state of sheer Bliss that wells up whenever we choose to set our external “ordeals” aside to Care for others.
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