Opposition, my friends, is real.
As sons and daughters of God, we have a real enemy whose
intentions are to mess up our lives and to try to mess up who we are becoming
and what we are doing in the Kingdom.
Don’t believe me? Just read 1 Peter 5:8 or ask me about the
last month and a half of my life…
My team and I have experienced some crazy, real opposition.
Apparently, someone doesn’t like what we are doing here in Kenya.
Someone doesn’t like it when we pursue God’s dreams. And apparently, there are
a lot of ways that that someone can try and mess things up.
If he’s not attacking our team directly, he will go for
relationships within our team or with those outside our team, trying to divide.
And maybe sometimes the Lord allows the opposition, allows the sifting…
Either way, it’s not all bad news…
increases our faith. And dependency increases because we’ve got to trust Him: that He is good, that He will lead us through, and to keep our sanity…
The Lord gave me this picture last night of a sparrow,
breaking free from its cage. The cage was lifted, and the sparrow flew away, free. And that sparrow is me! I am uncaged!
I am no longer bound!
No longer bound by all kinds of opposition. No longer bound by my circumstances. No longer bound by what
happens to me. No longer bound by what I wish would happen to me…
“For freedom Christ has set us free…” Galatians 5:1
