"Suffering long", even as "Our Father and GOD suffers long with us".......
Our Father and GOD does not "dictate", HE "suffers long" with HIS children!
At times, when experience has caused me to once again REALize how "poor and needy" i truly am, i have cried, "make me a robot"!
Yet such is not "The Way to The Truth of The Life".......
Father Help! and HE does.......
Being "set free, free indeed" is to yearn! to seek! to desire! IS the wanting to do "The Will and Good Pleasure of "Our Father and GOD", REALizing "of my own self i can do nothing", just as The Messiah REALized! (John 5:19,30)
And should not the brethren of The Messiah SEEK and DESIRE that which The Messiah SOUGHT and DESIRED above all else?
"Father THY Will, not my will, Be Done!"
YES! sought and desired above all else, and most certainly more than anything that is in and of this wicked, evil world, and YES! this natural, temporal life as well!
Not "dictated", SOUGHT and DESIRED by the brethren of The Messiah, all of whom REALize how truly "poor and needy" we are!
For such is "The Way to The Truth of The Life" as revealed in both The Life and Teachings of The Messiah.
And it is needful to REALize that The Messiah received both His Life and His Teachings from "Our Father and GOD"!
Thankfully REALity testifies, "to come to the end of oneself("I",ego,id,pride) is a GOOD thing"!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html
Refined, purified, sanctified, made holy(set apart), despised, hated, "cast down but not destroyed",,,,,!
"Suffering long", even as "Our Father and GOD suffers long with us", indeed and Truth.......
Thankfully, "Love suffers long"!
For, "All things work together for The Good(not that all things are good), for those who love Our Father and GOD, those who are the called in accordance with HIS Will and GOOD Pleasure"! (Romans 8:28, Phlp2:13))
And while breath is, HOPE IS!
For TRUTH IS! "Our Father and GOD suffers long with HIS children".......
Father Help! and HE does.......