Life It’s Tough!

Life as much as we would like it to be, is not a bed of roses. Life circumstances happen whereby not every step we take on this journey is a road paved with gold. When we expect every day to go so swimmingly in our favour if you will – this is not how life goes. Life is difficult and is hard especially for those of us who are Believers in Jesus Christ.

Looking back to the Summer of 2018 when I firmly believed I was saved, where I came across the testimony of Costi Hinn (Nephew of the well known “Evangelist” Benny Hinn through the YouTube Channel of Justin Peters. I remember this is when The Holy Spirit truly opened my eyes to the truth of the so called “word of faith/prosperity gospel” and boy were my eyes opened big time which was the beginning of “my” outlook on the truth behind these so called ministries if you will. I then recall going onto the Website of Justin Peters where on this particular web page, I recall reading about Christians suffering persecution in this life. My recollection was one of both dismay along with horror along with my thinking the lie of “no, God would not take us through times of persecution” and when I stated this was a lie – friends, this truly was a lie straight from the pit of hell.

In my ignorance of God’s Word back then, despite believing myself to be a Born Again Christian” which alas I was not and I say this because of the absolute mess of “my own life” and when I say a mess – I seriously do mean that life was a total hypocritical mess. However, I also recalled thinking I don’t want to go through any kind of suffering or persecution and I was actually quite upset – seriously this was an understatement. I was also so blatantly ignorant and totally not well versed in God’s Truth Of His Word which to be fair of “my so called walk with Jesus” since 1985 was very poor and very poor indeed!

But you know what, God knew the absolute carnality of my life and carnality is a very good term to use because I was so carnal and all about self in I would say every single area of “my” life! This is where I am so incredibly thankful and indebted to Abba Father for bringing me to the place where I am at today. Nope not perfect by any means and definitely a continued work in progress. But also, I am so thankful that and this is where I am going to be bold and say that any kind of persecution, I would gladly go through for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This I don’t say lightly by any means but I am also so very thankful to be rooted and booted (not the best of expressions I hear you before y’all reprimand me) but to be grounded in His amazing truth through His Holy Word oh my goodness me – I am definitely in a place now and a strong place as part of the Remnant Of The Bride Of Christ – So very thankful indeed.

So, back to the title of this post “life it’s tough” – yeah, right now and actually for the last six months life has been incredibly rough going with days of being in total despair along with wondering “God what is going on here & why”; I am ashamed to say the odd “pity party” here and there crept in, but truly, in all the various trials which has affected me physically in more ways than one along with days of being in pain to the extreme tiredness to the nausea – daily life has been a huge headache. On top of all of this, sadly the mental health side of things has also come back and at times in full force and this has been far from pretty, let me tell you this right now!

I don’t for one second believe that we are given trials in this life for no reason. I do firmly believe that any kind of trials and another expression are “times of testing” along with times of refining. What do I mean by these statements? Well, we are given trials in life which in my opinion are either going to:

• Make or break us
• Cause us to turn away from Jesus OR
• To draw us closer to Him

It would serve us all to remember that whatever situation or life circumstance is going on, that there is a much bigger picture; that there are lessons to be had here; and as I stated above this is also a time of refinement. In other words this is where we have (wait for it!) choices to make! So, do we give in to “our” fleshly desires or do we basically & literally let go & let God take complete control. Meaning, in other words Dear Reader, do we allow God to take over the wheel to lead us on the beautiful road ahead of us trusting in all that He has for us. Do we have enough faith to do this or do we give in to “our flesh” therefore allowing “self” to be backed into a corner where we just sink further and further down into oblivion totally ignoring the hand of God which He holds out to us to pull us up from the miry clay so to speak!

So, in summary – Let each one of us remember:

• When we say we can’t – God Says “He can”
• When we say we cant walk this road anymore – God picks us up & carries us
• When the storm is raging – Jesus is the one who calms the storms of life
• When we do things in our own strength – this is where we fail
• When we find it difficult to trust – God is the One Trustworthy person in Our lives
• When we feel like giving up – this is when we need complete surrender to Jesus
• Look UP – ALWAYS

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