i have been reading these books about spiritual warfare. they are both fiction, but it is quite interesting on how GOD and satan use our circumstance and emotion to battle against each other; which is not fiction. during our sunday school class yesterday one our teachers made a comment about how "we should always be a little uncomfortable in the world." i started thinking about this, because of how many individuals or societies that have just gotten a little too comfortable with their surroundings.
i'm never truly at peace, which is the opposite of what society tells me. i am constantly seeking GOD for more wisdom on how to do something, or what i should have done in a situation. when peace finally does show itself then i know that i have done what GOD required of me to do at that time. my husband and i have be struggling, and actually arguing about a decision that both of us didn't feel right about making. we ended up going the opposite direction and we stopped arguing. GOD put it on both our hearts that we were making the wrong decision for our family.
sometimes when we are given the chance to do something that we thought was the right choice, or the desire of our hearts it turns out to be the wrong choice. our teacher talked about having to give up a battle that had been going on for over 2 years in their life. he said now he is going to have to basically re-train his mind and heart to realize the battle is over. i started thinking what if they cured ms and i had to live my life without the disease anymore. it would be an incredible blessing, but it would also be a whole new journey to conquer.
there was a situation that occurred in me and my husband's life a few months ago that still has me questioning the outcome on what could have been done differently, and how we should live up to the end decision that came from it. my husband has already resolved it in his mind and i haven't. the reason is because i am still trying to learn wisdom from it. first of all it got way out control; second of all it actually brought to light some things that had been going on for years. with all the parties involved there will always be a reminder of what not to do and what we should be doing.
when we get a little too comfortable in our journey with GOD then i wonder if we are too prideful. maybe we've decided that we can control our lives better than GOD can. do we ever stop to think that maybe the hardships we suffer, aren't about the other individual, but what we are actually doing. when we say "i don't do this", or "i don't that"; then maybe we should look into ourselves and see if we actually do. sometimes it will hit you in the face, heart and mind so hard that you think; "what have i been doing all these years." we have to step out of our comfort zones sometimes and just face the facts.
"15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[g] your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant." colossians 1:15-23
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