January 27, 2020
Surrounded. Under attack. Defeated.
Everything we feel when we attempt to go to battle alone.
As a little girl or boy, did you ever have times where you were afraid of the dark? Or that feeling you may have gotten when you got too far ahead of your mom and you turned back, and even for a moment that feeling that you were now “lost”?
I was listening to a song called “Trenches” by Tauren Wells, and he says “Heart under fire, facing defeat. So close to surrender, to my enemies”.
How many times have you felt like you were being attacked from all sides? Like the walls were closing in and everything YOU had worked for was crashing down in front of you? Have you watched a love of struggle with an illness or have you been abused by what we call mental illness to the point that there doesn’t seem to be a way to overcome.
Just a way to run. To escape your body. The cage that you are locked in with echoes of all you aren’t, everything you never were, and everything you will never be able to achieve. To run into the arms of an Angel far away from here. I remember watching Forrest Gump and the little girl runs into the corn field, drops to her knees, and says, “Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away from here,”.
We feel we need to escape to get to the Kingdom when our Lord wants to bring the Kingdom to us.
What if I told you that God was in the trenches with you? What if I told you He already waved war in that EXACT place for you and He already won!
What if I told you that our God had the armor already polished and ready for us! And all we had to do was…..Call!
Surrender!
Our God So Loved the world that He came Here to fight for you and me! He hasn’t left. He’s been here all along yet we were so busy trying to prepare for a battle that wasn’t ours… so busy trying to be the hero, that we failed to see we were already carrying the victory!
Faith is the belief in the unseen. And while our God in “physical body form” may be unseen the works He has done in us and around us in the past are very much real. How can we not look forward with expectations when our God has done MIGHTY works in our lives this far?
Stop and ask yourself, “Was there a time in my life where I can say ‘I don’t know how I overcame that’”?
The Trench was already dug. The armor already shine and prepared. The VICTORY is already won.
Will you accept it?
The Trenches of the Kingdom 