JOURNEY TO THE ABYSS

The Journey To The Abyss

Peace love joy charity tenderness kind heartedness think on these things and you won’t gratify or fulfill the deeds of the flesh. Each journey to the abyss of sin is always preceded by a thought. Each journey to the place of sin is always followed by some form of separation and death. Not the literal type but the type that still can leave you cold like a corpse but walking around in life.  There is a cost a steep cost a horrible price that is paid by all of us when we take that journey. Your journey might be different then my journey but the destination is all the same. 

Having a good preventative maintenance plan is very critical. Take myself. What do I do with the thoughts that wake me up at night sometimes. The desires that through no fault of anyone but myself I have to fend off. Well honestly I don’t have those answers down pat. The super spiritual world of Sundays School that place where we like to sound wise and educated says those are the moments when I take them to the Lord. Ok I do that but then I still fall. I struggle with a ton of duel associations. So as soon as I overcome one I am slapped in the face with another. How many people struggle in a similar fission only Chrystal Methemphentimes and Porno isn’t the vehicle that you have used to take your trip to the abyss. How many people got dumped on the phone and every time they hear a phone ring it triggers a fear and a memory. The association is with pain so to prevent having this triggered memory one might keep their phone completely off. That’s not freedom that’s avoidance.

We have got to start dealing with root causes and real issues. Question How does one go about doing just that? Well I think the  Paul put it best when he says to not even speak of the deeds done in the darkness and basically not to even spend anytime discussing it or entertaining it either. But to instead of fighting evil by focusing on the evil I think the secret ingredient is so counter to what our natural instincts tell us that we miss it when he wrote and said to set our minds on the things above.  Focus on the fulfilling the fruits of the spirit….get busy doing something good speaking something good and edifying someone else’s life.

The trips I have taken back to the abyss were so costly not just to my own personal testimony but to the hopes and dreams of the great cloud of witnesses who are looking for an example of someone who can display the Grace and courage of Christ in the midst of all hell breaking lose. I have to be the first to admit Satan never had to push me too much to get me over the edge. He just had to provide the opportunity and means and the choice was so easy. Endure discomfort and pain or get immediate pleasure. At some point and time in my own walk the journey and the cost of the journey has got to become so pointless and senseless that the temptation is not even an issue.

What I have learned is this no matter what my circumstances no mater how life is going for me at the time. Good or bad. I have found a way to justify myself in the moment of choice for choosing to gratify the deeds of the flesh. Have I ever seen what is on the other side of the storm ..mabey a couple of times at most. 

I have to be honest there are times weekly that I struggle with my grip on sanity. I am baffled by my own immaturity and broken at the thought of my sin and betrayal of the Lord.  And its those moments moments like last night and tonight when I realize I am exactly where God wanted me to be and who God wanted me to be. That despite my failures and my downfalls I am not junk I am a child of God.  And its in the moments of lack of control when I realize I never was in control.

Peace be still are the words Jesus used to calm the storm. But today He would say those words to the people in the storm. Peace Be Still. No more trips to the abyss. No more hiding from pain or confrontation. Today the Lord declares a new day. WE don’t even have to discuss the deads that were done in the darkness because we have so much goodness to discuss about the works done in the light. Where is your focus?