Mohammed AE

Dear Pilgrim, In living for Jesus and His Kingdom on this side of the divide, life sometimes will hit you hard. What to eat, what to wear, what to put on, and where to live. It will literally feel like you're walking the valley of the shadow of death. Just because of your allegiance to Jesus and refusal to walk as the Gentiles walk; having their understanding darkened and being alienated from the life of God. In that day, the burdens will be intense. Satan's suggestions of compromise will offer you a very attractive and "easy" way out. Nights will be lonely and sometimes tearful. It would seem that with every rising of the sun, your chances of remaining faithful to God dims. Beloved, know this. The hands of God are perpetually committed to holding you. What you are going through is part of the tests and the challenges the Christian faces. Like Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, you must look at the situations in the eye and say, "My God is able to save me, but even if he doesn't save me, i will still not bow" This is the posture you must sustain. There are situations where it's in delivering us from it that God will take the glory. But there are others where the only means for Him to get the glory is for you to go through it; no matter how painful and come out on the other side, after all, with the joy of your salvation raging! So, lift your head up, plant your feet on the ground, and keep walking. The way the story ends is with you winning. Either in this life or the next. Stay strong, soldier!