God's Work

When doing God's work there is only one consistincy, and that is that everything you struggle with or are tempted by will become a larger part of your life. There is no greater work than that of God's but there is also no work that comes with a greater work. This is not to scare you off, this is to inform you so that when you enter into action of God's will for you, as best as we can figure out, that you will not think that your life will become easier. It will become more meaingful and more full of joy and life and peace than you ever thought possible and there is no greater feeling or joy than praising God. But make no mistake, God's work is WAR. It is an ongoing battle with yourself most of the time. Your temptations and struggles will be thrown in your face constantly but you must get past that because God allready has if yo asked him.

The reason I am on this tangent is because of recent temptations and struggles in my life. Lately sexual immorallity has been in my face all day everyday and I have been successful so far and defeating it. Just like in any other battle you must stay persistant and on your guard at all times. When feeling tempted, PRAY, and if after that prayer you are still tempted get away from what is tempting you. Go take a walk, work out, play a game. Go do anything you can to get your mind off of it, whatever it is.

Another struggle I am having recently is people talking negativly about me. Granted they are saying these things in responce to a comment I said to my girlfriend which was meant as a joke but if you didn't know that upon reading you would take it seriously and take offense(which these people did). I don't blame them for their comments I fully blame myself. But what I have been struggling with is wanting to retalliate with harsh words of my own. I feel that if I don't stand up for myself I will be seen as weak, when in the eyes of God the restraint from having vengence makes me more Christ like, which should be my ultimate goal, more important than anything else. I read a devotional book on just about every night, i'll miss one every now and then but I do ok about staying on top of it. In that devotional for last night it was on this exact situation I was just talking about. So I listened to what it had to say looking for a christian perspective probably from God. It read, "so when other people are cruel, as they most certainly will be from time to time, what should you do? 1. Politely speak up for yourself(and for those who can't for themselves) 2. Forgive everybody as quickly as you can. 3. Leave the rest up to God and get on with your life.

This is what I have learned recently in my walk with God. If you are in a similar situation use the three steps my devotional talked about. It is a lesson from scripture that I hope we all learn without going through personally.