Compromise. . . A Promise To slavery
I quietly sit in my peer support class, wishing to do something useful with my time. My tireless mind keeps wandering from one thing to another, it just can’t focus but inside God authoritatively says “Open your bible.” However,my flesh began to fight back. How stubborn could it get, so many excuses to “save” my spirit lifting bible reading for another time where it can be more “personal”, so many innocent thoughts to keep it for a later time.
In this one soon discovers after some experience into submitting to those minuscule thoughts that you never would read the bible like you so confidently exclaimed to yourself that you would. You began to understand this tactic that Satan uses against you yet still fall into the same hole every single time, you know there’s only one thing you have to do defeat these recycled strategy. . . Just do it! Just read it! Swallow your flesh controlled pride and humble yourself to the immeasurable strength of God. In a simple prayer to just ask God to help you can get you so unbelievably far, yet even in that you still have to fight yourself, your defiant flesh just to get over the discomfort you might face when you have to confess your energy to destroy your selfish, greedy, and stubborn laziness. Just do it! If you let yourself be controlled, let your comfort decide for you over your heart, over your spirit , over the demanding of Gods will then it will only destroy you before you ever discover that it itself, has to be obliterated.
Rusty Chains, Tightening Shackles and Relentless Bondage
When you lie in your deceiving comfort, powerless to fight the naturally sinful flesh that has found itself within you from ancient days you begun to experience some very spiritually difficult effects due to your decisions. You start finding yourself stalling within your relationship with God because you begin to rely on your flesh and less on God to help you get through obstacles since you already have submitted yourself to it before. You begin to feel utterly useless for your routines become ,sadly, predictable. The road you were once paving through foreign treacherous mountains and distant raging seas slowly becomes a detour to a comfortable place, and yes as times you just take a rest, yet again you end up misusing the comfort you first had the privilege of dwelling in.
You begin to unknowingly run away from the strength given to you from conquering summits of dangerous heights and deserts of hellish lengths. Yours spiritual muscles in a way grow weary and weak from the comfort you soak in and begin to deteriorate, you begin to struggle to rise above the previously simple also easy tasks. Your spirit screams inside, warnings and prophecies, but one cannot hear, for the noise and needs of ones flesh to sustain comfort blots it out and keeps it hidden. Your life spirals down and your reliance on yourself to get out of this situation seems the only way though it’s nearly impossible. You were once running the eternal race with callused earthy feet also divine strength and now on your bare porcelain knees scraping them against the marble pavement of selfishness, laziness and self-deception. You’re bewildered and so inevitably lost and your flesh. . . Oh how it convinces you that you’re in control when in all reality you are the figure-head and ,it, the master behind it all. You. . .insufficient, halted and powerless, it. . .dangerous, striving, and altering.
It all begun with a little compromise, and an unknown entitlement to death’s chains and little by little you begun playing by its rules and unfortunately losing at its false games.
Begun to fall yet never observed what inside you was telling you that you’re not going to be landing safe.
You lie there feeling useless, stuck in the moment, never changed. It becomes dreary and weary as all becomes meaningless, you, now so fully enslaved.
But it can all end there and turn completely around, if you would with the understanding of Gods power say “NO!” and like an unshakable stone foundation hold your ground.
If you would remember the unfathomable power God contains in just one drop of it if it were to ever fall into your dry dwindling desert of forgotten strength, it would be more than enough to stand on top of your fears, imperfections and failures stretching to unseen lengths.
Just fight back, the power you receive from just being able to fight against your flesh is something that gives you strength unheard when you prevail, at first it will take so much will power to try to defeat it , it will take prayer and even fasting at times, but God see’s your heart and from there you will fly on eagles wings over the valley of death below, and then you will show. The glory of God… the indescribable glory of God.
VERSE OF THE BLOG: Romans 8:12-13
“So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”
Song of the Blog: This song when I first heard it stirred the unknown depths of my heart and it only just explains how is just how I feel right now, the chorus breaks my heart because I feel that desperation, I feel that spark within me just wishing to become a flame amidst all the constant searching for His presence… for God… and its so heavy, the desire is all-consuming. Holy spirit we are in need of your reawakening…
