The battle we are in right now is a sneaky one. Many of us are being coerced into believing we are tired, since being tired is a natural thing it seems the only answer is to give in. I thank the Lord for what He said through Caroline the other night while we were worshiping, though. She reminded us that this year is not about energy it is about Jesus Christ being our one love.
My baptism
We all came on this trip because of our love for Jesus Christ and that needs to be the reason we live each day fully alive; because Jesus is fully alive in us.
Recently the encouragement we have been giving eachother is to “press in” and “push on” — which is great, and encouragement is necessary– but Jesus himself told us that his burden is light. I have been in this mode of planting my feet and turning my shoulder to leverage this weight we are to “press in against” and I realized that satan must love that because if I really knew the truth I would know that thing I am trying to move with my own strength and endurance isn’t even there. It’s like I’ve been leaning at the base of a mountain trying to push it into the sea when it is by faith as small as a mustard seed that that happens.
I’ve begun to see the intimate expression of faith with Jesus as more like the footprints in the sand. We are walking with Jesus and when things get hard or rough, we don’t plant our feet and lower our shoulder to brace ourselves–for it is then that he carries us.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary trials are producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17
