And now, a week later, I have traveled through the eye of the storm. That He loves me….) It was His Truth that led me through the storm. What amazes me is that during all of the details and circumstances that I mentioned, I clung to the Truth of His Word (that He works all things together for the good of those who love Him, that He has plans for me: to prosper me and not to harm me…. And I repeat, humbly share this with you. I only share all of this with you (not because I have attained it and licked it, beat it, and aced it all) because for the first time in my 37 years, I realized that I could walk in the Spirit while a physical elephant attempted to sit on me a crush me. I realized that God warned me before it happened, but I also thanked Him that He has been preparing me to learn to endure such trials. I couldn’t get up and walk to the window (literally I was on the couch in pain), so I had to pray that the light would reach me where I lay.Īhah! It was the same thing God spoke earlier (before all this happened), and I was reminded that I must walk in the Spirit if I am to withstand the physical pressures. It was like the only way out of the dark room was a light that led to a window, and that window was only a breath and prayer away. Needless to say, it was all reason to get “down, grouchy, defeated and exhausted.” God reminded me, however, to press into Him as the pressures of the physical got heavier… and interesting thing happened, the physical circumstances got so heavy that I had to focus on the spiritual so that the physical wouldn’t thwart me, take me out, and render me helpless. Shortly after His reminder, I was attacked with falling short of academic demands put on me in the doctorate program, bombarded with sickness, financial issues, followed by emergency dental work that had to be done on my right lower gum area – further followed by pain for a week that made it hard to sleep. Recently, God reminded me that I must walk in the Spirit if I am to withstand the physical obstacles, if I am to not be thwarted by the limitations found within the physical. ![]() It is God who gives us victory, and it is God who enables us to endure through the sacrifice and strength of His Son today, tomorrow and for eternity. As we know, but sometimes we forget, it is God who fights our battles. Let us look to Him and ask Him to help us with His armor and ask Him to put us on His shoulders and carry us to victory. Let us contemplate the spiritual tenacity of the Armor of God and let us envision the spiritual vigor of our Savior who, ultimately, fights the battles for us. ![]() Let us not consider our armor that heavy metal stuff from the dark-ages. ![]() And let us not forget our shoes of peace and our sword of the Spirit, but when we are laid out flat in need of a nap, it’s hard to raise all that heavy armor and continue to fight. In the moments of physical exhaustion, we can forget to wear our spiritual armor of God because we are too tired to lift our arms up to place the helmet of salvation on our heads, and raise our shield of faith, let alone remember to fasten our belt of Truth and put in place our breastplate of righteousness. It appears that arrows keep flying, illnesses, physical limitations and/or injuries, tired limbs and weak knees threatens to disarm us. It has come to my attention (looking in the mirror this morning and noticing fellow Warriors who are weary from battle) that there are some weary warriors out there who need encouragement.
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