… but ultimately worth it!
Whilst God and God’s truth never changes, for God is the Ultimate, Complete & self existent ONE, we do and must change to enter into the fullness of God!
We are compelled to let go of the former comforts of immature doctrines and hopes that were at best mere shadows of God’s truth. Stubbornly holding unto them means we continue to live a lie spending our lives on vain things. Letting them go can be just as devastating.
What a choice, what a trauma to the soul of the seeker and lover of Christ!
“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ. he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:16
The old has gone! The trauma of that change in our perception, our understanding and grasp of truth can be so unsettling and disorientating that it leaves one confused, feeling lost and completely demotivated.
It may leave you accusing God in the words of Jeremiah, “Will you be to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails?” Jeremiah 15:18 and asking “Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable?”
Be of good courage! This is a sign that your pressing on in your journey back into God. You will yet arise and many will come to the brightness of your arising!