Serving God is very difficult. Our spirits long for closeness to Him. Yet, our flesh is self-serving and demanding of gratification. In the battles to overcome our flesh, we often become weary. Truthfully, it can be tempting to take the easy route and give up. We forget the gift we have in Jesus.
Jesus understands our weakness. He comes through every time we call to give us renewed strength. The challenge is that sometimes we do not call Him. We try to overcome the flesh with our flesh. Subsequently, we face defeat. Nevertheless, our fall does not have to be permanent.
By trusting in and relying on Jesus, we can power through difficult moments. We can make it through weary seasons. We can live to see victory in our earthly lives. Yes, Jesus won our eternal victory! When we accept Him as Savior and Lord, we can experience the victorious eternal life promised to us.
I just want you to remember that there are earthly victories for you to experience too. You can overcome addictions. You can overcome unhealthy thoughts and feelings. You can form healthy habits. You can have peaceful relationships and peaceable interactions. You don’t have to live stagnant, hopeless, and fruitless.
In Jesus, you can bear good fruit.
Love,
CompassionateLee
Hebrews 12:3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.