“Your mess does not make you, only the message does.”
The demand of Christian living is to some too enormous, unrealistic and unattainable. Many times it seems like failing to measure up to or meet up with the standard we’ve always heard preached is our end. It is a painful realization of the struggle within from which we desperately would rather be spared from. It becomes a strong reality; a circle that seems to fit yet has no visible end. We are often drawn to conclude that it is a waste of time attempting to overcome the impossible, so we are tempted to give up and give in.
We need to be constantly reassured that, no matter the areas of our lives where we are being faced with constant struggle to please God, it doesn’t diminish nor reduce the father’s love for us. In fact, it doesn’t make us less a Christian. That there is an area of your life where the victory has not turned in physically means you’ve located the area of your life most vulnerable to the enemy’s constant assault. And that is where it ends.
Today, I’m speaking to folks who are considering settling down in their weaknesses. People who have tried many times to keep their body in subjection to the spirit, but their victory still seem elusive. I’m also sending to those whose past is haunting and destroying their joy, fulfillment and pursuit in the present; People who are getting to or have gotten to the point of throwing their hands into the air and burying their heads in the sand of hopelessness. To all these good people I say, cheer up!
GOD KNEW CHRISTIANITY WILL BE A STRUGGLE
Christianity is not a piece of cake, else, grace would not have been made sufficiently available to all that believe and are saved. No wonder God has to come as a human to live as an example for us to follow, touching everything you’ll ever touch, seeing all you now see, and feeling everything you may feel. He came, lived and had victory, hence, he reigns forever because He won on all fronts.
Getting saved (becoming born again) is both cheap, free and easy because it is at someone else expense. Walking the Christian way and living the life on the other hand is so costly that the amount to be payable is grace, which you need to also receive because is not available anywhere accept from above. In summary the Christian live is beyond the normal or natural man, it requires divinity: Christianity is supernatural.
Paul the Apostle wrote in his epistle to the Galatia church that, “..the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another..” Galatians 5:17 (NKJV). Notice the choice of present continuous tense and the capitalizing of Spirit. This indicates that the struggle is not going away. You can’t pray or wish it away, never! It is a reality which you must brace up, open up and learn how to master, else, you’ll be dangerously mastered by it.
Your humanity will always remain with and in you no matter your sanctification and consecration (whatever those mean to you), and your age in Christ (that’s effective from the date you willingly, personally and consciously confess Jesus as Lord and asked that He takes over your heart and life) notwithstanding. Fasting and other piety are good and encouraged but they don’t have the power to automatically override your weakness (es) and allow you always submit your flesh to the Spirit.
