15/08/2022
Holding Back… What am I so afraid of?!
August, 14, 2022
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
