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>>560800

Since no one is answering: I don't actually know about "knight of the faith", but from what I understand and have experienced: we are all instruments of God's will however God cannot use us whilst we live a life of sin and rejection of him. God flees from our sinful life which leaves chaos and disorder as sin brings us on a path of corruption as absolute corruption is total removal of God's grace. As finite corrupt humans we don't know what our purpose is or what's good for us, so without God we hurtle towards destruction as we become married to finite visible things and not the invisible everlasting perfect kingdom of heaven.

In order to trust in God we have to deny ourselves and take up our cross. This means we have to completely reject all earthly pleasures and rewards and only aim for the eternal reward. This is crucial because we can't serve two masters. We can't have faith in God but still worry about how to feed the kids. There may be a trial where we are faced with feeding the kids or apostasy and the person married to the material world will apostatise. No we must realise that this world is ultimately fallen and will end and aim purely for perfect union with God

Thus we surrender our wills entirely to God, we do not worry about earthly pressures but we leave it entirely to God to give us our daily bread. Only those to deny everything but God can become instruments of his will. It is not a trial, but a necessary process for us to die in Christ. When our souls are entirely ordered towards God and not to earth, then God can start to use us as instruments of his will and fill our purified temple bodies with the holy spirit. With God's grace brings order and perfection and earthly perfection too. The point being that once we were too proud greedy and disordered to have stewardship over God's creation, thinking it belonged to us not to God, however now we are humble and responsible to manage the gifts God appoints us to, because our faith is in him not in the gifts.

Just think of all the times someone has received a little bit of power and it went to their head and they went mad with it. A steward must be humbled and learn to serve before he can lead.

>>561445

So its basically:

> For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

>>561445

best post I've seen here in a long time

God bless you

This has been my goal and purpose of life for some time now, and while I still have a long way to go and much struggling ahead, I am sure that this is the one true path in life and everything else is a secondary matter.

I've decided to submit my own goals, dreams, my life and my own will to the will and love of God. Trying to find the meaning and purpose of life was always important to me and I finally found it. My dream is still to make the world better, to somehow influence all the people in the world to turn away from evil, believe in God, love Him and submit to His will. I don't hope nor want to get any kind of reward for this, I simply want it to happen because of my love for humans and for God.

I only have a tiny semblance of an idea on how to achieve this, but I believe that this is what God wants, and therefore it's what I want. It really seems impossible, but I believe that if I rid myself of any personal wants and sins and just become like a vessel of God's will, then nothing is impossible. I am willing to devote my life and sacrifice it, and go through any struggle to make this a reality. Now only to stop sinning…

>>561458

Exactly. Trust Jesus to put into a sentence what took me several paragraphs. It's like he's God or something

>>561520

Never be discouraged. Remember Job who lost all yet had faith in God. The lord giveth and the lord taketh. All good things come from the lord and are a blessing.

>>560800

What does it mean to renounce or to resign? Dors it mean to cease enjoying and give up material things altogether?