Here I sit…
Once again on
the edge of a precipice
And I am
finding that there is the thing…
This thing
called fear…
And it’s
holding me back
It’s real, but
yet again it’s not
False evidence
appearing real!!!
And I’m so very
sick of it!
Hate might not
be too strong of a word…
It has governed
my actions for far too long.
Sick and tired
of being sick and tired, the fire in my heart is rising up. I want so badly to do
more than survive… I want to truly live and thrive. I want to live courageously
and like the heroes in the stories I love, I want to slay the dragon!
You see I’ve
been realizing that my own faith in Christ is weak. Under trial I have found
myself lacking.
But you see
there’s a trap here. Especially as a man.
I want to fix
things. I want to go solo. I want to go it alone…
And that is
where we all fail isn’t it?!
We cannot do
these things without Christ! We can’t. It’s not possible… though I tell you, Satan
will try and convince you that you can.
The scripture
says that I (we) can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (us).
Don’t try and
go it alone. You will fail. And we weren’t meant to anyway. Christ said that “My
yoke is easy and my burden is light.” We are supposed to work in tandem with
Christ… together!!
The days are
dark… I can’t candy coat it. We live in perilous times. We live in a time when
the truth and the lies are mixing together in ways that I could never have
believed in my wildest imagination.
There is no way
t navigate these days and the deceptions that are growing every day… without a
connection to the Way, the Truth, and the Life that is Jesus.
Back to it… my
fear…
I have this
overwhelming desire to speak… not for myself mind you… but for those who are
lost
I want to offer
perspective… to offer clarity… to point the lost and questioning
To the only
answer… Jesus.
There is no way
to overcome all that this world is screaming at us collectively without a vital
connection to God through the salvation that is offered to us through Christ
and his death on the cross of Calvary over 2,000 years ago.
No other
religion, way of thinking, system, organization, political ideology will ever
get you there.
Jesus said that
he is the only way to God
And you must
deal with that. We all must deal with that.
Jesus was
either a liar, a lunatic, or… he was/is exactly who he claims to be. The Son of
God…
Our Lord and
Savior.
Though I have
failed innumerable times in my life, I declare to you that Jesus is my Lord
& Savior. He is the one and only Son of God. His is the Alpha & the
Omega…
And though I am
weak… He is, as he promises, Strong.
I can depend on
Him and so can you.
I am letting
you know that I believe that our time here on Earth, as the church, is growing
very short.
Persecutions
are growing exponentially every day all over this world and people in general
are no longer able to reason.
Anger,
dissension, laziness, division, anarchy, rebelliousness, selfishness, sexual
perversion, murderous violence… these are the signs of our age and the endgame
of humanity.
We should not
be surprised by it all… scripture says that these will be signs of the end of days.
But we should
not despair. We should not live as those with no hope.
Instead, we
must shine the light of Christ all the brighter. We must commit to stand
strong. We must commit to stand in faith. We must commit to lives of purity.
We need to
anchor our hearts to Christ… spending time in His Word, the Bible. Spending
time in focused prayer that seeks to crash the gates of Hell and Death.
We must
remember we are in a battle, and we are all expected to fight the good fight,
putting on the full armor of God.
Don’t be fooled
anymore. Ask for God to open your spiritual eyes and to grant you the gift of
the Holy Spirit so that you can be fully aware of the battles going on all
around you.
Jesus already
won the battle for your heart on the cross, but you must take up the cross
daily and crucify the old self, the fleshly self, each and every day.
So, after all
of this, that is my prayer for you, my prayer for me… to wake up each day and
to ask what God would have us do to expand His Kingdom.
Let’s commit to
do as I said… to crash the gates of Hell and bring back some prisoners… to
bring them before Christ and pray that He might deliver them.
Seize the day my
friends!!
In Christ, Mike
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