The Four Kinds of Difficulties — Hindrances to God’s Life in Us

 

The Four Kinds of Difficulties — Hindrances to God’s Life in Us

Colossians 3:4 When Christ is the life, you also will appear with him in glory.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Luke 9:23 Then Jesus said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

Galatians 2:20 For I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live in faith with the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 

📊 Table

Category	Definition	Manifestation	Spiritual Problem	Effect on Life
Not knowing life	Not taking Christ as life but living by concepts	Zeal and activities without following Christ within	Living in dark concepts, not knowing the way of life	Christ has no way out; only religion remains
Hypocrisy	Using temperament or virtues to replace life	Slowness, gentleness, smoothness taken as spirituality	Taking the natural as life and morality as Christ	Man is expressed; Christ is hidden
Rebellion	Knowing the inner leading but refusing to obey	Choosing what one likes instead of what Christ wants	Rejecting Christ’s inner leading	Life is suppressed; the spirit becomes dull
Natural ability	Serving God by talent and skill	Relying on ability, experience, and methods	The self is unbroken by the cross	Ability replaces life; Christ has no ground

 

✨ Spiritual Integrated View (Key Points)

1.      All four difficulties are essentially “not Christ.”

2.      The most dangerous hindrance is not sin but the natural good.

3.      The way of life is not to do better but to let Christ live.

4.      The only way out is the breaking of the cross.

📣 One Prophetic Summary Sentence

Lord, save me from not knowing life, hypocrisy, rebellion, and natural ability, so that You may have a way out in me.

🏁 Ultimate Conclusion

The greatest difficulty to God’s life in us is not outward sin,
but the inward self;
only through the cross
can Christ be lived out from within us.

*Please refer to the 2025 Winter Training: Experience, Enjoy, and Manifest Christ (Part 4), Week 5: Tree of Life.