26 Bring Rebellion to the Full

Realization of the Faith to Overcome

Twenty years ago – July 2001 – my entire being was in a deep struggle. I had been addicted to cigarettes for more than 10 years and now I was a baptized SDA and I still couldn't shake my habit.

I'd been praying: "God please take away the cigarettes." As I write the words today it seems kind of silly to pray like that, but I hadn't seen the error in my thoughts yet.

What was the error?

Cross Examined Review (When we suffer, He suffers)

Whenever I think of the torture, pain and death that Jesus had to endure, my sad realization of all men abandoning the one who come to save humanity, rejected by the very people who were supposed to welcome Him with open hands who instead shower Him with hatred, shameful abuse, and all kinds of evil, which He endured so that all may have everlasting life, it has always given me hope that if GOD can love us enough to give us His Son then truly we can also find redemption, peace of heart and all that we may need in the will of God.