January 13 2015

I believe this year is going to be pivotal for me. But i believe it will also be pivotal for every one else. Day by day the spiritual battle rages. Our enemy doesn't stop and is relentless with their attacks. That being the case,  we can't stop. There is no giving up or going back. I know this personally because I tried to walk a away from God when I was a teenager. The Lord let me go and but He brought me back. Thank God for His grace because He didn't have to take me back. He gave me yet another chance to make things right. It's been almost 2 years since I got saved. I want  to make the most of it. I look back and I don't want to back to my old sinful ways. With that established now I got to keep holding on and obeying the Lord. See, I use to think that once I was saved that was it. Jesus died so we can be reconciled to God so we can obey Him. In Genesis Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord and that is what got them kicked out of the garden of Eden and sin became part of their descendants DNA. So when I say we must keep going is we must continue to work out our salvation. We have to keep pursuing the Lord. We must keep growing and maturing in our faith. We must also guard our heart. Let me give you an example of what NOT guarding your heart looks like. This past week I came across an article online about what happens when we die. I always thought that when a believer died, their spirit is with the Lord. Well this article said that we don't go with the Lord.  That we only sleep article and wait for His return. It seemed logical and they had a bunch of scripture to back it up. I believed it. I posted the article on my Facebook page and I caught a lot of flack over it. So last night at men's bible study I asked what happens when we die? The Lord knew that I had not been guarding my heart. But I was shown and explained what happens when we die. I almost lost my hope because my hope is to see the Lord when I die. I try to imagine how it would be but I am sure it is not even close to what I could ever imagine. But I also learned I need to guard my heart, keep my focus on the Lord, and go back to basics. So I deactivated my Facebook page for a month. I want to seek the Lord and find Him. I got distracted and taken off the narrow road. It's that easy. Yea I failed but I am not quitting. I am dusting myself off and I am going keep marching forward to my exceedingly great reward. I hope this is an encouragement to somebody.  Keep me in your prayers.  God bless you.