Seeking God, 3rd of July.

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robinriley

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Jakob said:
I didn't know where to post this, so i posted it in this thread.

I am tired and feel like I can't focus on my soul in this society.
I have made plans to go backpacking/hitchhiking across europe starting 3rd of July.
My family think it's a bad idea, cause I dont have any money really. (Do have canned foods)
I said that I will do this, to seek God, seek myself, and I trust that God will lead me whereever I need to go.

What is your advice? For hitch-hiking back packers?

I'm gonna do this for certain, so no need to mention the dangers or my stupidity. I am aware of the danger, but I will not live in fear, I want to live. I want to get experience, learn from people. Learn from Nature, learn from God.

I'm gonna start in Germany, then go to Amsterdam hopefully, then France. But I dont really know yet, the road/God will take me where I need to be.
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In Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, the evening one had me praying for you again. I fear it is about you. Here's what it says:
“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.”
- 2Ti_2:12
"We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have to mourn over on earth, you are not “suffering with Christ,” and have no hope of reigning with him in heaven. Neither are we to conclude that all a Christian’s sufferings are sufferings with Christ, for it is essential that he be called by God to suffer. If we are rash and imprudent, and run into positions for which neither providence nor grace has fitted us, we ought to question whether we are not rather sinning than communing with Jesus. If we let passion take the place of judgment, and self-will reign instead of Scriptural authority, we shall fight the Lord’s battles with the devil’s weapons, and if we cut our own fingers we must not be surprised. Again, in troubles which come upon us as the result of sin, we must not dream that we are suffering with Christ. When Miriam spoke evil of Moses, and the leprosy polluted her, she was not suffering for God. Moreover, suffering which God accepts must have God’s glory as its end. If I suffer that I may earn a name, or win applause, I shall get no other reward than that of the Pharisee. It is requisite also that love to Jesus, and love to his elect, be ever the mainspring of all our patience. We must manifest the Spirit of Christ in meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness. Let us search and see if we truly suffer with Jesus. And if we do thus suffer, what is our “light affliction” compared with reigning with him? Oh it is so blessed to be in the furnace with Christ, and such an honour to stand in the pillory with him, that if there were no future reward, we might count ourselves happy in present honour; but when the recompense is so eternal, so infinitely more than we had any right to expect, shall we not take up the cross with alacrity, and go on our way rejoicing?"
 
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