God laid this word on my heart. I know we’re all going through it.
When God called me to do the World Race, I was ecstatic! (& still am, duh.) I was at a place of “in-between” but I didn’t know it yet. God had cleaned me up and finally, I was starting to get more involved in my Christian community again. I was excited about God & for the first time in years I felt happy & content with my life, regardless of the circumstances and chaos all around me.
A few months later & here I am… struggling with the same sin that had me so entangled before. Yeah, God has given me strength to resist temptations & to His glory, I haven’t fallen. However, satan knows that God has something UNIMAGINABLE in store for my life. Like some of my favorite christian artists remind me (shoutout to KB!), we don’t fight for the W, we fight FROM the W. So even though satan has done a reallyyy good job of distracting me, I KNOW that through Jesus Christ, we have the victory. Luke 10:19 is a good reminder of that. “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”
“My biggest enemy is ME & even I can’t stop me!” (shoutout to Andy Mineo!)
So many times I wonder why I do the things I don’t want to do but then I don’t do the things that I want to do. I know it only takes me further from God & causes me to ignore His calling and the REAL treasures He has in store. My whole life I thought that it was just me! But LOOK! God showed me this: Paul addresses this exact behavior in Romans 7:14-25.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[b] a slave to the law of sin.
I have struggled with the fact that I’m going on an 11 month mission trip & still feel like I struggle. (…that’s not a confusing statement.) We all will. It’s satan’s way of distraction. Just know we fight from the W. We’ve got the victory. Surround yourself with reminders of this daily… positive music, encouraging books (THE BIBLE), spend time with God. Lecrae’s song “Don’t Waste Your Life” has really been speaking to me this week too. It’s an oldie but it’s truth is still very real & it is such an anointed message. I’m not only encouraging you guys. I am guilty of losing focus and procrastinating, so I’m speaking to myself too!
The spoken word video linked to this is very relevant and encouraging too. Hope y’all enjoy!
