It’s exhausting, wrestling against temptation and sin, and bad habits and negative thoughts, isn’t it?
When we get saved, all that doesn’t stop.
We learn real quick (and have to be reminded often)- that salvation isn’t just a one-time thing.
I myself need it daily!
Multiple times a day, even.
Not just to be saved from eternal death,
but also saved from sin’s power over me now.
Saved from the enemy’s lies
that I’m not good enough.
Or that it’s even about me being good enough.
Saved from my self.
My own desires that aren’t good for me.
The bad news:
The enemy doesn’t let go without a fight.
He knows our weaknesses.
He knows areas we have caved in the past.
He knows our pain points.
And he constantly brings those things back up.
He stabs us, and then he pokes his finger in the wound.
The good news:
God isn’t going to let us go without a fight either! He wants to fight FOR us. And He is guaranteed to win.
He doesn’t want us battling things on our own.
He wants us tagging Him in.
Trusting Him for our salvation
in any and every situation.
Confiding in Him when we are tempted-
unafraid of condemnation,
because we know that his intentions for us
are not that we’d be condemned,
but that we’d be cut free from that fear,
by faith in what Jesus did for us on the cross.
So- when we are exhausted
from fighting the enemy’s lies,
from TRYING to fight fear with faith,
from TRYING to be a good person or be seen as a good person,
He comes beside us and offers to change our focus…
to embracing His Truths,
TRUSTING that His grace is sufficient for us,
both when we feel bold AND when we feel afraid,
Knowing, that compared to the only standard we are supposed to set ourselves beside (Jesus), we are NOT good people-
not one of us,
that ALL fall short,
and yet Jesus’s love for us was so perfect,
He died for us,
to bridge the gap between us and God
just the same…
Suddenly,
We find ourselves set free
from the enemy’s snare.
Suddenly,
We can see that we don’t have to get out of anything on our own.
That God has been waiting all along for us to humble ourselves (get a proper perspective about our part in it all, Him being the big fighter who frees us, and our small part simply inviting Him into each and every battle.)
It doesn’t matter what our record with the enemy is.
God’s record has always been,
and always will be 100-0.
Jesus says that He hasn’t lost ONE sheep given to Him.
So you see, we are GUARANTEED to win this spiritual struggle, so long as we give ourselves and each and every one of our battles, over to Him.
The key to fighting isn’t avoiding tapping out by seeing how long we can hold on or stay in…
And it’s not giving up, either.
It’s tagging our Partner, our Savior in!
It’s giving it UP, to Him!
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