I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all...but glory! -- Cicero (lifted from the comic strip "Candorville" from February 23, 2019)
This I do believe: Every feeling of fear, every doubt about personal welfare (and aren't most of our doubts based on personal welfare in one form or the other?), every lurking uh-oh is my own free will trying to sway my Father into easing up, cutting me some slack...doing it my way already, not his.
I suspect the entire purpose of God's gift of free will is for us to experience the necessity of freely returning it.
The big reveal being that "freely" is by our own blood, sweat and tears, i.e., the unpopular crash-and-burn, from which we awake to the righteous revelation, the pearl beyond price...the unpopular is transmuted into our glory.
Interestingly, the path was cleared by way of a comic strip...don't tell me God doesn't work in mysterious ways, doesn't have our back, doesn't use for our good every bit of minutiae we hand to him.
Hallelujah! I love him so.
Thank you.
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