Can't Always Play Safe
I work for chevron gas refinery, which is a very dangerous environment. Before I learned how to do my job I had to learn how to be safe and massive amounts of safety regulations and procedures. Working in a gas refinery, one small wrong move may be your last move ever. So safety is heavily enforced here, for the sake of my life and everyone else.
Well me, I never was too much for safety. I always loved to surf and skate and took a lot of risks with my health or maybe even my life. So when I started at my new job, slowly my perspective on the way I would do things started to change. I stopped skateboarding, I surfed waves that I knew I could survive on, I began to assess and analyze every situation, making sure that in any circumstance I would be ok. And if not I would either not go through with whatever the situation would be or make the safest way possible to get through it. I started to practice this in my spiritual life. You would think it would be wise, but as I look back sometimes it's caused me to sin and fall. Sometimes it's even caused me to hurt others around me. Because I had to make sure of my safety.
Well as I read how Moses explains Gods view on war. I started to see the areas in my life God calls me to stand up and fight. I started to go to my safe zone. But as i started to assess and analyze the safest ways possible, I heard God challenge me to steer away from that for that wasn't His will. "well but God I'm going to get hurt!" And then this verse! I felt His words pressing in on me "lyle don't you know I'm on your side? Don't you know I go before you? Don't you know I am preparing you here in the wilderness for the wars to come?" When peter stepped out of the boat it wasn't the safest thing to do, nowhere near it. It was the faithful way.
I'm encouraged to be reading this today. I know that I've got a lot of battles to go through to prepare myself for the war, or maybe even just the next bigger battle. But I always remember my pastor telling me "when you fight with the devil he DOES hit back and he hits hard." But for some foolish reason I forgot that he ended it with "But with God on our side the battle has already been won."
God has gone into the battle before me. He is on my side. With the lord as my light and my salvation, whom shall i fear whom shall I be afraid. With me pressing into Him I cannot lose. I may get hurt, but I cannot lose.
Heavenly Father, Lord God, I thank you Father for reminding me you are God of ALL and you go before me. God thank you for encouraging me reminding me that YOU God of the UNIVERSE. The God who made the mechanics of every molecule of every cell and makes sure they function correctly everyday. Who allows me to breathe ever breath I take. You God hold my life together. THANK YOU JESUS. God i pray that in these battles Lord you would prepare the way and prepare me lord. Help me to fight the good fight in your name. Father if you can take this cup from me please do, but not my will yours Father. I love you lord. In Jesus name I pray! AMEN!
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