The path to wholeness is narrow and difficult…unless we trust.

(Listen to my song “I Want to Follow You” by clicking HERE)

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Matthew 13:20-21

“The seed down on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy. But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away.”

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Jesus warned us that living by the word of God’s kingdom will not be easy.

Hearing that we are eternally loved is one thing…but living-it-out is quite another.

When we practice unconditional love, mercy, forgiveness and compassion…as well as work for justice for those on the margins…many times we will be rejected and ridiculed. Things will not always go smoothly.

That’s the time we need to trust that a Higher Power is at work…that after two steps backward…there will be three steps forward.

That’s when we must persevere like the man who claimed to be the “way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6).

We must cultivate our soil with plenty of prayer, meditation and acts of compassion.

If we do…Jesus promised us that we will be like the seed that bears fruit and yields “a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold” (Matthew 13:23).

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Remember…God loves you!