My good friend and fellow soldier Kenny shared something with me the other day. I haven’t been able to shake it…
He said on Sunday, that’s what the Lord was telling him, “hold the line”. How very true that is for each and every one of us. As I was thinking on “hold the line”, I started thinking about how easy it is to get so bogged down with things of this world that we forget we are in a very real war. Something happens when we allow others and situations to dictate to us who we are and what we do.
I have been experiencing this recently…
For the past few years I have been on this journey of business and entrepreneurial ways. I never wanted to go that route, but the Lord had other plans. ? Anyways, I have learned TONS and now love it, but at the same time in the world of business when you must look and be professional, it’s very easy to get civilized. What I mean by that is, it’s easy to start to adapt to what is common to man. Take the recession for example. The media screams that we are going into a recession and people freak out and stop spending money. Everyone is affected…
But, what does God have to say about all of this? Did we forget to ask Him? With all the business owners I talk to on a daily basis, the economy is in the forefront of their minds and the first thing that comes out of their mouths.
With all these facts floating around, it becomes very easy to adapt to a different way of thinking. The way the world thinks and sees things. This is where our faith becomes civilized and it’s a very dangerous place to be. When we start to become civilized we forget there is a war going on, we stop fighting the good fight and we stop representing Christ and His Kingdom in the way we should, we lose our Kingdom thinking.
It’s a very scary place to be…
We can’t allow things to desensitize us! We just can’t! There is too much at stake! When we allow our faith to become civilized, most of the time we don’t even know it. We still think we are all big and bad, but in reality, we can become prideful and pathetic. We may even pick fights with other Christians just so we can still feel like a warrior. What a bummer deal that is!
Please remember, Christianity can be messy and brutal and yet, the best thing you could be….A child of the living God!
So let’s hold the line and dig our feet in deeper than ever before, because our King didn’t die for nothing!
Let me hear a war cry!!
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Hey Paul…
WOW! “hold the line”…awesome! Last night at prayer meeting we began by talking about praying for the church as a whole, that God will give us some rest. We all feel stretched in many ways, and we have been battle weary. So as I went to prayer, I told God that our flesh is tired and we want rest, but I asked Him what he wanted, what His heart was. Here is what I heard…it came to fast that I ran and got note paper to take notes: “Strength, perseverance, time to shore up and stand fast, your flesh wants rest, but it’s time to stand strong, keep fighting, continue to battle. Rest will come, but it’s not time for rest right now. It’s a time of revealing. It’s proving ground time. What are we made of? This time of standing fast will prove us as a people that will stand fast and no matter what comes our way we will trust the Lord fully. Some will stand, some won’t. Those that remain He calls the remnant.”
Thanks for the email…funny thing, I’m related to William Wallace!
Blessings,
Beth