I like this picture.....
It's not in focus.....
It really doesn't make much sense....a businessman climbing up a hill with his briefcase....
But yet the picture speaks volumes....
Revelation 4:1
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.
An open door in heaven.....
An invitation to enter in.....
A promise to reveal things to you.....
That is the heart of my God.
He is an inviting God.
He is a forgiving God.
He is a God of love, but also a God of justice.
He has a standard to which all of us are called to....but he also provides the means and the ability to come to that standard.
The business man in the picture seems so out of place climbing up that hill. Especially when you think about him carrying his briefcase. That could be me. Not that I'm a business man, but that life and sin and hardship and misery is represented by that hill. Life is a hard climb indeed, and it grows even harder when you throw addiction into the mix. There are bodies strewn all along that hill of people who simply could not make the climb. People who gave up and laid down to die. The invitation to life free from the darkness that comes with sin. To live free from the constant battle waged in your mind always whispering and telling you not to start up that hill.
Think how much easier it would have been for that businessman in the picture, if he'd dropped that briefcase....let go of the baggage he was carrying. We have a tendency to do the same thing. We hold on to the baggage of our past, trying to make the journey, hindered all the while by the weight of guilt and shame.
Hebrews 12:1 reads: ....let us lay aside every weight and the SIN which so easily ensnares (entangles) us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Get rid of the baggage.......and run.
Notice that nowhere does it mention the race being for the swiftest or fastest. It is a race for endurance. It is about not giving up or falling out.
It is all about laying hold of the promises of God and then moving forward. Such action is called "obedience" and God will empower you through the faith he has given you to make this journey.
For every excuse your addiction whispers to you on why you won't be able to complete this journey....
I can give you the ultimate reason as to why you can.
God called, you answered and He will see you through.
Simple as that.
It begins with a simple, single desire to stop the madness.
A recognition that you cannot make it happen on your own.
You need help. Not a doctor.....not a philosophy....not a quick fix.
God is the Power you have been searching for that will help you make sense of all the madness....
Turn to Him.
He will come to you.
You will stand in the light of this new life you've only heard about, dreamed about.
It can be yours.
God on you...
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