Sunday, June 15, 2014

I AM A PRISONER AND I LOVE MY SENTENCE!!!

Have you ever read something and didn't quite understand what it meant and then maybe 2 weeks later you were like oooo I get it now. Well that recently happened to me. I read the New Testament (not my first time, but for some reason this time it stuck out) where Paul talked about being a Prisoner for Christ. At first I was like what!!!! I meant I understood him from his point of view but I said to myself, am I a prisoner of Christ? I didn't dwell on it anymore.  Then time went on and I slowly but surely I felt myself being uneasy and definitely uncomfortable around certain people. Their language offended me, their vulgar post offended me, their behavior offended me. I tried to fight it and continue the relationship but I couldnt. The spirit was on me and said to me "It's Over".  I was like what!!! I sought out opinions from people who I knew were mature in Christ and the advice was: "the deeper you grow in Christ, the more you and your friends will part ways, if they aren't seeking Christ themselves.  I fought it and fought it and fought it until I couldn't take it no more. I was wrestling with the Spirit because here I was friends with folks for years and I had to break ties with them. Like what this really happening here. Then it was while I was in church I heard "it's time" so I was like time for what. Then days passed and the Spirit said "It's time for you to do what you're suppose to do". Like really that's all you're gonna say, I mean can I just do what I want to do and still serve God?  Trust me Christ and I have a good relationship he knows I'm very dramatic. Then it hit me, I'm a prisoner. I do what Christ wants me to do even when I don't like it, I move when he says move,  he leads me wherever I go and even though I don't want to do something, I do it, because I want to do everything God wants me to do. So I am a prisoner and I don't mind. I don't mind spreading the gospel and I definitely don't mind saying I am a Christian and I definitely don't mind allowing God to make the choices in my life. So hey I may lose a couple of friends, I may have to speak, things may not go the way I want them to go but everything works out for the goodness of the Lord and my Lord and Savior is the only one I have to please, I'm excited about my sentence. People may delete me and say there she goes again posting about Christ, but I can't help it, even when things aren't going the way I planned, I still have unspeakable joy.  God uses who he wants to use, no matter what your past looks like, no matter what you have done, no matter what you are going through. Paul use to persecute people and was speaking against Christ, was he not converted? In the bible there are many that were used for different reasons. I am no different and neither are you. Trust in God, for the path you have for yourself, more than likely isn't the path The Lord has for you. Be blessed my brothers and sisters and May Christ be with you always!!!!