The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. Stop worrying about things you cannot control, as this only brings strife into your lives. Stop focusing on the negative things around you and instead focus on Me and what I Am doing in your lives, for this will bring you great joy. Stop coveting what your neighbor has because you think they are doing better than you, for they too have many struggles that you don’t see. Stop carrying your burdens in your own strength, for this will just wear you down and leave you powerless; but instead give Me all your burdens that you may walk in strength. Stop doing what the world does, for they are led by their appetites. They consume thinking they are being satisfied, but this eludes them. Instead, I give you everything that your heart desires, and you are satisfied. My loves, the world’s ways are not My ways, and the longer you walk in the ways of the world, the less you will have that is truly good. In Me you have peace and joy and good things. In the world you have strife and struggles and ultimately death. These choices are before you. Choose wisely.
2 Cor 3:1-18 (ESV) Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. 10 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. 11 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. 12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. 14 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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