This one was inspired by Sunday's Sermon 20/6/2010 at MDT
I have thoughts present in my mind and for a while now I have been living in a fantasy world that I need to step out of before I ruin my chances in my current reality and my future as well.
I made choices that compromised my whole being’s wellness and I think the person that I owe this conversation to is God. Yet you ask, ‘well off you go…run to Jesus!’ But is it that easy to run to Him...I have my learnings and will gladly share them with all.
We drop the ball so quickly when we are faced by ‘bigger’ opportunities or a faster way out of a situation by our standards. A trigger goes off and whether or not we have the will within us to say no to something or anything the flesh is the culprit. Do we know whether the outcome of the choices we make will accelerate our reaching the goals we have set out for or deter us from the entire course and make it hard for us to complete?
I speak from a point where I stand alone in everything I do, say and think. Everything is on me. Long gone are the days when we had an entire city that would pay for the sins of one person, where thousands would be wiped out in the name of stopping the ‘bad seed’ from spreading any further. But in the long run it became about ME taking full responsibility for MY actions and face death – spiritually, mental and physically.
How many times have you promised yourself never to look back and always focus on the task or the goal at hand and not seen yourself complete the course because of the simple and tiny choices that we make that have a significant impact on your progression? Do you feel like the goal is a lost cause when you realize this was the wrong time to make that decision? Do you look at yourself with embarrassment, ashamed of what you’ve regressed into or that you are dealing with the same issue over and over and over that is seems like a burden to share with those who love you and care for you? Do you feel too comfortable to move from where you are into the unknown because you have been accustomed to pain that you live by it and for the fear of not being able to deal with a ‘new way of life’?
Well one thing is clear to me today…we cannot dwell on things that have passed. Let’s take our mantles and continue on with the race. Let us not wallow in the issues that we can do nothing about. Take back the wheel and continue to push on because whether or not you have the strength to continue someone else is looking out for you and is in your life to help you deal with this. It is also a walk of faith and we must understand that because of that there may seem that there is a lot at stake but that there is even more at stake if we do not take that step of faith into the unknown.
The thing we need to internalize is that even on this course that we fail several times and seem as though we are doomed to never see it to completion is that He the Lord that begun in you the good work is faithful and will see it to a full close and completion for His glory. You might think that sometimes the Lord sets us up for failure and ask Him many questions ‘why this or why the other’…it is what it is; move on with your hand firmly locked in His. He will not task you with anything that you have no strength to deal with for He knows what you are capable of managing and full well so.
Your death – spiritual, physical and mental may sometimes be a painful thing to go through, but be assured that for us the end goal is the promise of eternal life with no more sorrow, no more rough patches where all and everything will be living in harmony. How about we look forward to that…How about I look forward to that and stop being derailed off my course and journey. I need to look to the hills for my strength comes from the Lord who rightfully renews it strength for me to pick my cross and move on whilst we are still on this earth. If your flame feels like it is going out ask for Him to light it up again within you that you may continue to act as the beam for others who are on this earth today and living a similar experience and give each other HOPE for a victorious and glorious finish.
I close with my favorite line…it’s never that serious but it is when it begins to compromise your entire wellness. So focus on the end-goal and run the race as it is said in Hebrew 12:1-2 (NKJV) Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
~EW~
