Strides of purpose

As you get closer to the person God intended you to be the resistance you encounter becomes greater. Whether it is your own flesh warring against the Holy Spirit of God within you or it is circumstances that seem to set themselves in opposition to the path Christ has shown you or it is the enemy himself. Remember what Jesus tells us in Matthew 10:24-25 we, the students of Christ Jesus, should expect the same opposition as he faced the closer we get to him but we have a promise - (Romans 8:35-39 MKJV) “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter." But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Do you see it? No matter what we face in this life something better awaits us! Not all will be called to die for Christ’s sake but some will. Not all will face a deadly illness but there are those who will. What about fear, complacency, or pain we all have our battlefields. We cannot choose our giants but God promises to be with us and when the race is run, if we hold tightly to Him He will call to us by the very purpose He has placed in each of us – for God says we are more than conquerors! One day, though it is hard to imagine, we will look back and say it is worth it all! The saints of God will have stories to tell through out eternity still our purpose will not be over even then. So run this race with all that is within, not looking back set your gaze on Him who gives you the strength to do the impossible. We know not what God has in store for those He calls His own but knowing Him I know He is good and I am hopelessly desperate for more of Him in me. (1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV) “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

With that in mind we should make every step count, every time we move it should be towards Him. May your strides be filled with His purpose and your heart overflowing with surrender to God’s Holy Spirit within you.