If the Soul be gracious
“If the soul be gracious,
the body shall be glorious.”This passage is a glorious promise to us. It’s repeated twice because we tend to think “That doesn’t quite make sense. These words are difficult to believe.” No one could foresee that faith would be so important until Christ actually said, “Everyone who believes in me will have eternal life.” Now Jerome, Ambrose and Cyprian all believed in Christ, yet they were executed. How do we fit this together with the promise of eternal life? When we see how people who believe in Christ cursed, condemned, exiled, even beheaded and burned, it’s like having the rug pulled from under us. Christian’s aren’t allowed to live in peace. The promise about eternal life seems like a lie to us. If this is what eternal life means–that one is pursued–killed–then let the devil have that type of life.
But faith must close its eyes and refuse to pass judgement on what it sees or feels in the world. Believers won’t become aware of eternal life until Christ raises them from the dead. meanwhile there eternal life is hidden in death. It’s covered up and out of sight. But remember that as long as you live, and even when you’re dying, you have forgivness. if you feel the weight of sin crushing you, you can still say, “My sins are forgiven.” When your sins hunt you down, bit at you, and terrify you, you can look to Christ, put your feeble faith in him, and hold on tightly. [Martin Luther]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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