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White Stone Prophetic Word
James Trivette 4.5.2012

Ski the Bumps

For there are many courses to your destiny. Some are harder, some are easier. Some are faster, some are slower. Some have more suffering, some less. Some yield much glory, some yield less. For though I have ordained you with a destiny for My glory and your reward, I have given you the choice. The choice to pray, the choice serve, the choice to be kind, the choice to smile. The choice to drink the cup of My life, the choice to drink the cup of My death. As a skier skies a mountain, so there are paths that are easy, moderate, or difficult. Today, consider the choice. Will you ski the path groomed by others, or will you ski the bumps? Will you frown and fear, or will you smile and be exhilarated. For though there are many trials in this world, they can produce a great reward in eternity. Consider you ways, and know that whatever you choose, I am with you.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Commentary

In this prophetic word we are encouraged to consider that though we have a destiny in Christ, our choices still affect our eternal reward at the judgment. When the mother of James and John came to Jesus after He told the disciples that He was going to die, she wanted Him to guarantee her sons place in the eternal kingdom.

Matthew 20:20-23

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. "What is it you want?" he asked. She said, "Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom." "You don't know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?" "We can," they answered. Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."

Jesus revealed that the place in the kingdom can be associated with suffering and hardship in identification with the sufferings of Jesus. So though we may be called, we must still choose of which cup we are willing to drink in this life. I don’t believe this means that God rewards your suffering for being stupid or arrogant, but walking the road of Jesus may lead to a greater suffering on this earth, but a greater reward in the kingdom.