Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Romans 10:14
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
God is coming for you. He really is. No matter the depth of rebellion you find yourself in. No matter how you’ve turned you life over to the oppression of sin and shame. No matter the darkness that envelopes you or the chaos that surrounds you, God is coming for you. It may be out of the mouth of a child. It may come from a wizened old soldier who’s been under the blood stained banner for a sometime. “How will they hear without a preacher, and how shall he preach except he be sent.” God will send one of his own…for you. Will you have an ear to listen? In the time of the Judges, God allowed Israel’s enemies to remain among them so that Israel would learn to fight, and to win. Led out of Egypt by Moses, into the land of Promise by Joshua, then besieged on every hand by enemies when the elders among them finally passed off the scene. This particular period of history very accurately mirrors the times we currently live in. Like the peoples of Israel, we too often do what seems right in our own eyes. Suddenly, there is no open vision, no Word of the Lord, no sound from heaven. We find ourselves spiraling away hope, assurance and blessing to a place of uncertainty, despair and pain. Ensnared by bad choices, bad relationships, the allure of the World, we find ourselves in a place of utter hopelessness, but Help is on the way.
God loves you. When the dust settles and you emerge, scarred but victorious, you’ll know what generations of saints before you have come to know: If God is with you, He’s more than the world against you. There’s some stuff, that God brings you out of at the outset of your salvation. For me it was liquor. He took the taste of alcohol completely out of my system. However, I still have some stuff to deal with; we all do. My choices are to give in and give up and become a slave to my very worst instincts or to turn it all over to Him. All of it. To lay aside every weight and sin that hinders me as I run this race. To place my focus on Jesus; the very First Breath and the very Last Word. The only way to manage the battle against besetting sin is to turn it over to Jesus. That was the lesson for Israel in the days of the Judges, and the lesson for us in this day: Let the Lord fight your battles. I choose Life.
God has a Word for you. He’ll use a modern day ‘Judge’ to deliver it. A pastor of a local church; a church near you. The church of a friend, a family member… it might be a TV evangelist, but somewhere God is sending deliverance. Listen. Listen to God’s Judges. One of them has a Word for you. Listen and choose Life.
Blessings,
.wb
Psalm 121:2
My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Revelation 12:11
They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
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