And this is how that suffering happens- if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive yet we are demanding of a human being something which he or she cannot possibly give. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. According to our thinking, everything is either delightful and good, or it is evil, malicious, and cowardly. We are not true to one another as facts, seeing each other as we really are we are only true to our misconceived ideas of one another. Many of the things in life that inflict the greatest injury, grief, or pain, stem from the fact that we suffer from illusions. But the disillusionment that comes from God brings us to the point where we see people as they really are, yet without any cynicism or any stinging and bitter criticism. However, though no longer deceived, our experience of disillusionment may actually leave us cynical and overly critical in our judgment of others. ” The Holy Spirit speaking through James said, “Now let your patience become a finished product.” Beware of becoming careless over the small details of life and saying, “Oh, that will have to do for now.” Whatever it may be, God will point it out with persistence until we become entirely His.ĭisillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life it means being free from these deceptions. And His wonderful work in us makes us know that overall we are right with Him. We have been having a wonderful time in our studies over the revealed truth of God’s redemption, and our hearts are perfect toward Him.

Through this process, God is trying to impress upon us the one thing that is not entirely right in our lives.

Or the problem may be our idle and wandering thinking, or our independent nature and self-interest. It may be a problem arising from our impulsive nature, but again and again, with the most persistent patience, God has brought us back to that one particular point. And He never tires of bringing us back to that one point until we learn the lesson, because His purpose is to produce the finished product.

God will bring us back in countless ways to the same point over and over again.

Ultimately, God will allow nothing to escape every detail of our lives is under His scrutiny. Not only must our relationship to God be right, but the outward expression of that relationship must also be right. We should have no carelessness about us either in the way we worship God, or even in the way we eat and drink. Carelessness is an insult to the Holy Spirit. Many of us appear to be all right in general, but there are still some areas in which we are careless and lazy it is not a matter of sin, but the remnants of our carnal life that tend to make us careless.

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