Fighting For Your Life

Many days its os esasy to be a Christian. Its easy to stay connected to the vine in some ways. But as I’ve walked with the Lord I have always heard that the true test of a believer is to walk with the Lord when times are hard. The true test is when the storm comes and you can’t see where you are going.In my seven years of really walking with Christ I have never really faced anything hard in my life. Well, let me refraze. I have faced some hard things but my faith has never been shifted. I’m coming to find that in my life its not necessarily the things that happen to me that make believing and walking with the Lord hard but the things that happen in me. What I mean by this, is the deepst parts of who I am being moved or uprooted.When I’m faced with this concept of facing the deepst parts of my heart its so hard. I don’t want to do that. I want to pretend like I really do have all the answers and that I have it all together. Its easy for me to look at the things around me and make that my focus when the Lord is wanting to move me, shape me, and mold me to look more like Jesus. Its easy to say that I want to look more like Jesus, its hard to leet that happen.If your like me, its easy to just go on living, acting, and reacting to life the way you’ve always done it. We can all do this. Its simple. We all have the things we are good at that keep people away from our true selves. We are the only ones who know that though.