Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, open his eyes and let him see!” The LORD opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.
What do you do when life becomes more than you anticipated? When life proves hard to handle. What you thought would be simple as counting from 1 to 10 is now all about fractions, square root, statistics, probabilities and a host of other computations you would rather do without.
As a child I recall not being able to see into the future and rightly so, as kids our concern was living in the here and now. Life was motivated by pure joy in the moment as long as that moment allowed. I may not be able to recall all aspects of my childhood but now that I have kids of my own and with technology I am able to capture different stages in their journey and relive them as often as I want and confirm the truth that kids are unconcerned about the cares of life. Such pure and unabated joy as you watch them maneuver each day without care of the future. As parents we try to school them into knowing what tomorrow holds, we try to teach them, educate them, equip them with the knowledge that we have acquired along our life’s journey. What is the result? Sometimes an acceptance that feels like it went through one ear and out the other. At times a dismissiveness, not in a disrespectful way, but in a way that confirms they are unable to accept what is being said because they are not equipped for moving from a childlike stage into absorbing what we know as adults.
The paradox of life – leave them to their experiences while reinforcing what you believe is good for them.
And so, as adults we realize and accept that there is nothing certain about our life’s journey. We have to go through the difficult and the easy, the overwhelming and the underwhelming; we understand that with life comes change, some that we like and others we don’t. As adults we must rise to every occasion and weather every storm; there is just no escaping.
Even with life being a paradox, Christians must take control, not in a away that says WE HAVE CONTROL; but in a way that commands control knowing that we have the reinforcement that comes from God. In 2 Kings 6:17 it says Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, open his eyes and let him see!” The LORD opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire. We must not live in fear of the enemy but instead we must know the word of God and what He has given us as our tools to combat uncertainty, the changes that life will bring to us and the hopelessness that we feel when what we see is hard to absorb. In 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (MSG) it read, the world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.
And so Christians MUST RECOGNISE that we have everything at our disposal to take control and dominion of our circumstances. To know with boldness and assuredness that our Father, our Yeshua – our Rescuer and Deliverer has done all that needs to be done and it is now for us to STAND IN THAT TRUTH, IN BOLDNESS, in His name without fear. In Luke 10:19 (MSG) it reads See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you. All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you—that’s the agenda for rejoicing.”
Life being a paradox is not applicable to the CHRISTIAN WHO KNOWS THEIR TRUTH.
So the question now becomes, do you know your truth? That this world is not your home, that you have an eternal reward in heaven with God. That your battles have already been won and so YOU MUST WALK IN VICTORY knowing this. That the very word we speak has the implication of death OR life over our lives and therefore we must speak the right words that will command the best in our spaces. That even when we feel like giving up and when we feel overwhelmed, God is our support ready and willing to take us through. All we need to do is lay at his feet.
Let us be reassured knowing all of this and knowing all of this comes through reading God’s word; your sword in hand, the sword of the spirit… think on that for a moment ( the sword of the spirit).
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 NLT
What more do we need? The Paradox of life is not for us. Kids know this, let us be like them.
And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18.
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