We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds. You know we can all sit in a corner and cry about life. We can tell people about the incredible unfairness of it and how we have been delt the worst cards and our lives are just unbearable. Oh, how hard life is, in fact I am heading for the bottle right now, because I am fed up and I just can’t go on. Maybe that is a little extreme but believe me I hear this type of sadness in my office from time to time. The funny thing is that in most of these terrible painful stories the reason for it is simply decisions that people made. Simple choices that got them there and now they are shocked at the outcome. Now, please forgive me if I am sounding a bit emotionless here, I am getting to a point. I was asking the guys on the street why they are there and what type of work they did or can do. Now the sad thing is all of them said – drugs. They were doing well and then they tried the first thing and before they could help, they were addicted.
These guys are on my heart, and I try to bring them something to eat when I work in this area and it is actually a sad truth that so many people lose so much because of drugs and alcohol in fact sin is purply there to destroy us. The thing is, they are stuck on the street because they have lost hope. They accepted the fact that they are not worthy of a better life and this is where they will live the rest of their lives. The truth is, this is a lie and the very lie the enemy feeds so many of us. I love Paul’s words in Philippians 4, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.
In other words, he is always content regardless if he has little or a lot or even nothing. Now, the world sells the need message. You need this and you need that and if it becomes too much to handle here is a pill or something stronger. Why? Because the enemy works with a jail sentence mentality and Jesus works with a life in abundance system. Why a jail sentence? It is simple the world tries to hook you with stuff you do not need, addictions and debt. When you are caught, they will use the one to open the other with the goal to destroy you and finally you could also end up losing everything. I have experience in this because through sin I lost my wife, my house, my kids and a lot of money.
What is the difference between me and the guys on the street. Now I am not boasting about anything. The only thing I can boast about is God’s grace and His simple amazing promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Now in that I found redemption, because I turned to Him when I am at my end and nowadays basically all the time. It does not make me a walk on water Christian, it makes me accountable to God.
So, when I fall, I go to Him, when I win, I go to Him, when I am sad, I go to Him and when I am lost, I go to Him. I put my hope and my trust in Jesus Christ, now in this lies the secret, because in Him we will have content in in that we will have abundance, because our focus is Jesus and not the world and then He will bless us increasingly and abundantly above all we can think or imagine.
My dear friend, life may be hard, but I stand on
these words that Jesus said: “Be of good cheer, for I have overcome this world”.
Nothing will get me down for I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me even when I do not feel like it. Know this, you are able to do so much more because
of He who is in you. Just trust Him. Have an awesome day.
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