The Devil Never Takes a Day Off

The Devil Never Takes a Day Off

I am more convinced then ever that the end of days is near. I am not one of these Dooms Day people lets get that clear. I just make this observation because of recent events, From the natural disasters to the wars and atrosisities and crimes against humanity. The severe slip in morality and how people have become numb to it to the point we no longer flinch when a guy says he has had children with three women with one on the way with a fourth. When it doesn’t even make the news at all when 65 million babies have been killed in our country since row v wade.  That’s a whole generation.  Yet when Charlie Sheen smokes a whole 8 balls worth of Crack Cocaine it makes the front page and we laugh and joke about it like its not big deal that’s just Charlie being Charlie.  My heart is saddened by society but most of all its saddened by the influence society has on my own life. Like it or not I am prone to doing all the things in society that I despise about it.

I have been fighting in recovery since May 17 2007 and I can honestly tell you this the devil has never given me a day off.  Every day I wake up in this world of flesh I am hit in the face with the temptation of lust –I can’t even go to the gas station at the corner without being visually assaulted with pornography.  I am also daily in a struggle to not rage out and blow up every good relationship I have because that is my pattern to do so.  There are drugs every where I turn.  Yes even in my neighborhood.  The bottom line is this.  Living for Jesus Christ is a struggle.  Its not easy despite what people here on tv from most those preachers. Despite what the latest Christian self help book says …we know its hard. Shoot it was hard for Christ to be Christ what makes us think it won’t be hard for us?

All these things are going on and I am right smack in the middle of it. I am a committer of these sins not a victim of them.  Shoot I do sin the best. And a lot of the time I don’t need much temptation just a short window of opportunity.  For me this journey is about preventing the situations from escalating to the point where I am being carried away by the thought of sin to the point of action.  Going through occasional cravings like I do. I have learned recently that I don’t just have to endure them I can get offensive on them and take them out. I listen to praise and worship. I get into the word. And I do what I can to be productive right there where I am weather it is get on line and send some encouraging emails to people I know who have struggled recently or sending my testimony to people I know are not saved at all.  The point is if the Devil is not going to Give me a day off Then Jesus Christ is going to kick his tail seven days a week.