The battle is clear and no one knows it better than you. It has been with you for so long that it seems to have complete control, as if you don’t realize where it is leading you until you arrive and realize you don’t want to be there. Yes, you have made bad decisions and to further exasperate the issue you have even justified and excused the sin as a way of coping with it persistently being present in your life but that is not where your story ends, for your spirit has been growing stronger as well. Strange that both the spirit and the flesh can be strong at the same time but there is one major difference. The flesh has been strong and it has a stronghold that is true but the spirit is growing stronger each day as you seek the Lord and draw closer to Him. The fiercest fighting comes just before the battle is won and the devil knows he is on the losing end, if your relationship with Jesus continues to grow. However, if he can persuade you to relax your efforts to know Christ and do His will he might still have a chance. Doesn’t it seem odd you are tempted to listen to different kinds of music? There are many songs written to be something other than worship songs that in themselves no wrong can be found but in this crucial state, the balancing of power between spirit and flesh, they can and will cause the flesh to have the upper hand. The same is true for every decision you make, so choose carefully your spiritual wellbeing is at stake.
In the class I teach, me and the other instructor talk often about taking the thirty day challenge. If you are tired of your life going the way it is and you truly desire change then guess what change must happen! Change the music you listen to, the people you hang around, the places you go for just thirty days and see if the things you thought never would change don’t actually start to shift. See it’s not whether change can happen but more about are you ready for it to happen? Have you hit bottom and have you seen the folly of your ways? Until this revelation is revealed to you denial rules the day and the further into the enemy’s camp you unknowingly walk. Just know with each blind step into his camp the more difficult it becomes to be the person you were meant to be.
Finally, do not lose hope, do not despair but do know once you make the decision to stop living for yourself and instead know what it is to be a living sacrifice for Christ Jesus only the limitations you place on yourself can stop you. For nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. He will walk with you and though this journey can sometimes be treacherous and seemingly impassable Christ has already been this way and has made it through and has come back for you. There will be battles that you must face and do not misunderstand it is your feet that must take the initial steps out onto the battlefield to face your giant but God is with you and in you and when the time is right somehow you’ll notice it is no longer your knees knocking but the enemy shaking in fear. I believe it was the Disney cartoon “The lion king” where the young lion boldly faces an enemy who could tear him apart except for behind the young lion cub stood the might lion king and so it is with us when God walks with us. So do not fear and do not doubt, even though you know how great your enemy is but instead know God and trust Him and know you are His own. The key to the lion cub’s success that day was that he was walking with his father and was not led astray by his own desires to do what pleased him.
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