Monday, May 20, 2013

How To Stay Strong

My Utmost For His Highest

“We fail [in our Christian walk] because we are ignorant of the way God has made us, and we blame things on the devil that are actually the result of our own undisciplined natures. […] The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that we won’t.  The Christian life is one of spiritual courage lived out in the flesh.” CHAMBERS

Most of us need to be encouraged to remain faithful in our walk with the Lord.  We are like the little child in the grocery store … wandering off time after time .. seeing things we want to hold or have.  I have seen some children on leashes .. which I though a bit excessive on the parents part … but who knows what the child had done in the past. (My imagination is running wild at this moment!) The danger in reading something like Chambers is saying is that we think it is not us … that we are OK.

We will struggle with our old nature and with temptation so long as our feet are treading on this earth.  But … we don’t have to live as victims to our flesh or to the wiles of the devil … God has made a way for us to overcome … John 16:33  “These things I [Jesus] have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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