The Really Real

You must not spend so much time analyzing and recording the details of your circumstances. Your real life does not consist of what you can see or are able to experience with your five senses. Your true life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3, below). The difficulties you face are temporary inconveniences.

Dear One, you have spent much time describing in detail how you feel, but you have not inquired of the Lord. Now listen to the One whose grace is sufficient for you, for His power is made perfect in weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9).

You have been given freedom of choice over what you will allow into your mind. In this way, you are actually able to block the Almighty God, who is willing to help you.

You are able to hear His voice if you choose to do so.

Scripture: "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory" (Colossians 3:2-4).

In Christ Alone

Dear One, you belong to the Lord; you are His own. The place you are now is not the place you will always be. He is bringing you out! Deliverance does not depend upon you, but upon Him. If you do not turn, He will place His strong hand upon you and you WILL change direction, not by your own choice but by His. Would you risk falling into the hands of the living God? Scripture says that this is a "dreadful thing" (see Hebrews 10:31). When God moves powerfully, the vain thoughts and plans of sinful human beings topple like a child's block tower. God is able to change you in a way that reveals without doubt that the glory belongs to Him and Him alone!

Pray that the Lord will enable you to turn. Pray to keep the memory of the fact that it is His power and not your own that enables you to hold to the path that will lead you to the glory of His presence.

Humble yourself before Him and He will have mercy. He remembers how you are made, He knows your frailty, He remembers your suffering, and He has collected all your tears. You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book (Psalm 56:8 New Living Translation).

And yet it is not your travail, but Christ's that has ushered you into the Holy Presence. You have partaken of grace; of the Holy bread and cleansing blood of the Savior. Humble yourself before Him, plead His mercy, abide in His grace, and when you have been delivered do not take credit unto yourself. Freedom from the confines of sin has been accomplished for you solely by the Cross of Jesus Christ.

Scripture: "It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them" (Psalm 44:3).

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery" (Deuteronomy 6:10-12).