When Jesus becomes scary

Jesus' disciples were having a rough time. This He still guarantees.
Jesus' disciples were having a rough time. This He still guarantees.
Jesus largely 'led with His chin' during His remarkable three years of service in and around Galilee. The Sermon on the Mount heralded Himself as 'a maverick'.
We sometimes forget that what God takes from us, He takes with fire. (Consider Jacob at the Jabbok, or Lot and family fleeing Sodom for instance.
Prayer can often be a cleansing of the soul, it is a great detergent. (Leonard Ravenhill) Satan would whisper prayer is hollow, a chasing after the wind.
Heart-felt prayer contains a depth that mere mortality can only puzzle about.
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from Him.
Evil finds scant lodgings within a righteous man. This life long Christian trek was first squelched into desert sands. Many in history have gone before us, and succeeded.
Mankind was made good and righteous but man has gone in search of his own ways.
Conformity to the world is sure to end badly sooner or later, to the man himself it is injurious and to his family ruinous.