Conundrums: Chaos, Cogs or Choice?

Why do we 'believers' seem to despise peace, abundance? I had a conversation with a friend I hadn't seen in a couple of years. At one point, as I was agreeing with her that the chaos and pain was a little too much to keep putting up with, I said: "Jesus came that we might have life and life more ABUNDANTLY".

Looking straight at me, she said "we interpret that scripture differently." She went on to add something with this essence: "That [abundance] is primarily for when we are in heaven, but here it won't be that way. We will have struggles, pain and trouble, and that helps us grow." She absolutely resisted the POSSIBILITY that God really DESIRED peace, blessing and prosperity with no sorrow added for her life on earth! "I have come to give you PEACE, my PEACE I give to you." It appears that we prefer helpless martyrdom [cog-dom?] over peace and His ability [grace], His LIFE flowing in us.

Try this on -- satan's only real tool against us WAS the law. But Jesus 'fulfilled' all the law and satan has no basis now to accuse. [see Hebrews 8:8-13] So, satan has no power over us now! He would only have a basis for accusation and condemnation IF we were trying to be made righteous by law. Galatians 2:21 says: "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."

Many of us would 'frustrate the Grace of God', 'make Christ's death of no effect' so that we can hold God responsible for the poverty, chaos, pain and 'death' of hopes in our lives. We don't want to be responsible for our lives! The Gospel of Peace becomes the most 'personally responsible doctrine' because God has "given us everything that pertains to life and godliness"!!!!! Our only requirement to using this incredible power/grace [God's ability] is to BELIEVE-- believe we are qualified, made Right and no longer striving under the law to get right.
"If we BELIEVE we can say to this mountain..." Or, "When you pray, believe." There are so many scriptures that point to ALL that God has given us: "that they may also be one in us....and the glory which thou gave me I have given them." [John 17:21-22]

No business on earth would give the rank and file employees this kind of power and authority-- and the awesome responsibility for our lives that goes with it. So we love to pretend we are just little cogs, helpless in the swirl of life, at the mercy of everything and everyone, including satan, and even God. What happened to us BEING Sons of God? Christ said we would do all he did and MORE. Challenging! as I see where I settled in my believer-vision for so many years.

I'm not 'moving mountains' instantly, but I have accepted this sonship/responsibility and I am removing the distortions of belief that I am a cog, or responsible for my righteousness! Therefore, satan has no power over me because I am fully qualified [by Christ and His accomplishments in death, burial and resurrection]; redeemed from all the curses; "made RIGHT with God;" and am walking in greater PEACE, health, prosperity and wholeness of soul [mind, will and emotions] than ever before. [3 John 2]

His ability [grace] is truly phenomenal and makes all the difference in living life. No longer frustrating the Grace of God means I'm not trying to get righteous by keeping the law [thereby removing satan's right to my life]. I'm FREE 'to move about my life' in peace and abundance...no longer needing to create circumstantial theology to explain simple scriptures.

Yes, 'life' still happens, pain and troubles show up but I don't attribute them to God and I don't feel righteous in stoically enduring them. I address them with all the wisdom, ability and power I have operating currently in me at my level of belief: "Christ in me"& "the mind of Christ"!! What a fun adventure life is today. 'Cog-dom' is a thing of my past.