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A Morning View From the Patio

If anyone tells you life is easy either they are perfect in Christ or lying to you. I would tell you that living a life in relationship with Jesus is very difficult work. We all have varying and different experiences, failures and success on this journey, but it is hard and difficult work. It would be easy to give up. It would be easy to live in the lies. It would be easy to just accept the pain and numb it with the temporal things of the world. By giving up, I tell God that God is not enough. My head knows that God is enough, but my heart struggles to know deep inside my soul. It is so difficult to believe that God can love me after knowing all of my past. I struggle to love me, so why wouldn't God? 

For some crazy reason God does love me. Again, my head knows, but my heart deeply struggles because I know all of my past and God is the only other who knows everything. 

Friends, Agape means no strings attached. God Agape's me and you. So why do I struggle? Why do you struggle? We struggle because we really know we do not deserve Grace, yet it is always there staring us right in the face. 

We are in a constant battle. I do believe there is a devil. Often I wonder if the devil leaves me alone because I do all of his work for him? The devil needs not torment me because I torment myself. It is a daily battle to fight the enemy and often the enemy is me. 

Solution? Obey Christ! Much easier said than done and so much of a deeper struggle than saying obey Christ. But if I claim Christ I must cling to Christ and believe. 

“We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. ” - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 

Peace,
PB

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