You want me to pray for you, but are surprised when I offer my hand to lift you out of your trial.  You laugh nervously when you realize I really did mean it when I said that I would come and help you through this time of trial.  It took you two days to decide to accept the kindness we offered because you had become jaded and disillusioned by the world’s conditioning into thinking no one would ever step out of their comfort zone to assist.  We are here, I am here, because you are worth loving.

God promised us so many things.  I will never live up to any of them, but the power of grace allows that I am not supposed to be worthy.  Great Scott, these are gifts and that is what makes them so precious, so glorious, so impossible to achieve by man through effort, thought or ingenuity.  Our job is to believe, that is it.  If you believe then Jesus has done the rest, just keep on believing.  Certainly it is more complex, in that we have to ask the Lord for longevity and fortitude in our faith so that we make it to the end of the race maintaining our focus upon Him.  But it still comes down to believing in what He has done and is still yet to do.  Believing for a lifetime is assured by really believing for a moment, then the Holy Spirit indwells us to make it possible to reside, abide and build upon our limited faith, stretching toward understanding.

This is not a chore, this serving Jesus Christ.  His yoke is light.  Do no fall prey to disinformation, tempting you to accept that it is arduous in any way to be Christian.  The Lord sets us free from the power of sin, death, the flesh and devilish machination.  I am sorry that the marketed story line offers an alternate view of this glorious and grace-filled gift.  It is wonderful to know, standing comfortably without doubt, that we are in one to one relationship with the Creator of the Universe.  There is no other avenue to peace than pursuance and edification of this foundational and pivotal relationship.  Yes, there are temporary pleasures associated with worldly victories.  You may even achieve a modicum of sensory satisfaction from whatever stimulant raises your boat in the surf, but like anything it life it is “always” temporary, remaining subject to the limitations of time, change and death.  The only achievements residing outside of the controls of time and entropy are those issues built upon the Spirit of God through belief in Jesus Christ.  Construct your eternal life through relationship with God, build things that will outlast your limited time on Earth, believe and be set free from the scientific laws and limitations of humanity.

Do not believe the line that you are being fed about your place in a collective valuation.  You were beautifully, uniquely and wonderfully designed, by God to display a panorama or gifts gathered within a single person to point everyone else to God’s Glory.  Our purpose is to show everyone else the possibility, peace and sole-sourced opportunities available through trust, relationship and love with God.  Do not fear man, for God has your back.  They may take this temporal existence, freeing you from this earthly shell only to realize that your life beyond this one is something exponentially greater.  They will never win, even if they are allowed to dispatch you that is the misery of despair which all those in opposition to God must eventually face.  Their gains will be sensory, fleeting and temporary ours are everlasting.