So much of the Christian life is paradoxical. It's so against the grain. God's ways are counter-intuitive to our ways. Yet his thoughts and ways are better and higher than ours...
The way UP is really the way down.
The way forward so often feels backwards.
The way to have true joy comes through suffering.
The way to have peace is not through control but through surrender.
The way to know Christ's companionship is through loneliness.
The way to become strong is through experiencing weakness.
The way to save your life is to lose it.
The way to be first is to be last.
The way to be exalted is to be humbled.
The way to gain Christ is through loss of the world.
The way to bear much fruit is to simply abide in Christ.
The way to accomplish much is through being still and prayer.
The way to life in Christ is through death to self.
The way to grow in awareness of God's grace is to grow in awareness of our sin.
The way to be truly free is to learn His discipline.
The way to wear a crown in heaven is to bear a cross on earth.
The way to shine bright is to be placed into the fire.
This was the way of Jesus on the cross and so is the way for every follower of Christ. "Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only few find it." - Matt 7:14
