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The Fight Within

For a few days now, I’ve been mulling over everything I’ve been reading.  The 27th was about TRUST. Taking the high road and trusting God. When we don’t it’s like staying on the circuitous low path of despair. Well that’s what I’m calling it.

John 14:1-2 and Prov 3:5-6 are both trusting in God and not letting our hearts be trouble or leaning on our own understanding.

The 28th was about not ignoring the truth that Jesus is with us always. He knows everything that we do and think. I think most of the time when we sin, we’re making a choice to ignore the fact that we’re not hiding anything from Him. How do we get to the point of “total focus” on Him? By concentrating on Him? By barely acknowledging Him? By ignoring His commands and His Word?  It’s by understanding that everything we do is to be done for Him. That everything we face, good, bad, or indifferent needs to be placed before Him. How that’s easier said than done. Because this week I’ve been coming to terms with my grandmother’s passing, and emotions that I didn’t know were there, an application deadline for a school along with the financial aid form and the topping on it all, the news of the engagement of my ex-husband.  Not that any one of these items on my plate are overly trying in and by themselves, but they have come on their own and it was just enough for that day or more like for those hours before the next one arrived. With my grandmother’s passing though it was inevitable and I had a heads up, I had no clue I would react the way that I did. However, it was all in God’s plan. He answered my prayer from the week before when I opened up to Him about how I felt. When you get that answer it’s so peaceful and nothing can put a smile on your face quicker than understanding that it was in His hands and under His control from the start. That has happened, each and every step of the way in regards to everything that has come up this week. The application went off, and the financial aid form will be done by tonight and submitted. As for the news of the engagement; All, I can do is lift him and his fiancé up to the Lord for guidance and protection. That they’ll find and have a true relationship with the Lord and that they’ll be blessed for many years to come. So keep blessing those who find ways to keep you down, because the Lord will lift you up and help you rise above it.

Matt 28:20 “….I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Psalm 139:1-4 “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me….you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely,…”

The 29th was all about keeping our focus on Him. To bring EVERY thought captive to Him! I love this! He knows what we’re thinking before we think it, so we need to just take it and say, “Oh, I don’t think so Satan. Lord I give you these thoughts of negativity, or ill will, or revenge, or lying, etc over to you and pray your blessings over _____________, (what ever it may be) Lets rest in the fact that “In His radiant Light, anxious thoughts shrink and shrivel away. Judgmental thoughts are unmasked as we bask in His unconditional love. Confused ideas are untangled while we rest in the simplicity of His peace.”  “Jesus Calling”

2 Cor 10:5 “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Isaiah 26:3 Amp “You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.”

I love that translation! God’s word is never changing. It’s as solid as He is! Why oh why do I ever stop reading His word when it helps me get through so much in this life? This blog has been so helpful, even though I haven’t had but 1 response. If you’re getting a little closer to God through it, then that’s all I could ever hope. My week has been made less hectic and less heavy while looking up to Him everyday. Resting in his presence is an amazing opportunity, I want more of. I don’t want to stop. His peace makes everything more bearable. So, my harness is readjusted and I may have slipped a few times but He is the straight and narrow. He is my lifeline.

Keep trusting in Him and looking up to Him! Till next time my friends, Shalom!

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