See, forgiveness is free but to have intimacy and union with Me, Pure Love, you must be perfect and holy. This road is narrow, difficult and sometimes long. It requires intense desire for Me. There will be great pain but We travel together in intimate companionship. There will be hardship but fellowship. There will be suffering but intense Love. There will be weakness but My great strength. There will be hard Truth but also great and delightful mysteries. It will be the most rewarding, Love-filled journey possible. You will never be alone.
Matthew 7:7-8, 13-14 Ask and it will be given to you. Search and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you. The one who asks will always receive; the one who is searching will always find, and the door is opened to the man who knocks. Go in by the narrow gate. For the wide gate has a broad road which leads to disaster and there are many people going that way. The narrow gate and the hard road lead out into life and only a few are finding it.
1 Corinthians 2:6-10 We do, of course, speak “wisdom” among those who are spiritually mature, but it is not what is called wisdom by this world, nor by the powers-that-be, who soon will be only the powers that have been. The wisdom we speak of is that mysterious secret wisdom of God which he planned before the creation for our glory today. None of the powers of this world have known this wisdom—if they had they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him’. But God has, through the Spirit, let us share his secret.
Philippians 1:29 For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake
2 Corinthians 4:17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison