Some may find it easy, this life. I do not, in fact though not surprised by the fact, I often see impossible circumstances repeatedly threatening to get the better of the insecure man that this world has counseled me to be. It is with great imagination that people are able to deny the impact and pain that this life causes when trying to face these situations and consequences alone. My only comfort is that each time I feel the well of pain beckon me spiral downward, I find the hope, power and comfort that comes in prayer for all those within the impossible situation or circumstance.

I am no longer prisoner to the walls of the self-constructed cell of my own sin nor am I a party to the worldly limitations of my ability to react or not react to difficulty. The Bible says what it says and the Lord means it. Those who have been set free by Christ Jesus are Free indeed and must choose to remain within the unproductive confines of worldly/psychological prisons placed upon us by our agreement with sin, hell and death. I for one and I pray for those of my Christian Family will not fall prey to the false emotional attempts to capture me to the cells that have been broken by Grace.

I welcome your choices and am thankful that each of us must choose to work out our own salvation in fear and trembling. I will not offer condolence, colloquialism or spiritual absent sentiment in non-prayerfully offering to seek your blessings. Everything that Christ Jesus promised is there for your pursuit and receipt. I am also thankful that He calls us to obedience and achievement beyond the possible, for in that calling we are committed to a faithful search of the power, promise and provision outside of our own abilities to cope.

If He says do it, I am thankful when Christians simply seek its completion rather than interpreting, revising or avoiding the impossible tasks before them through faith rather than personal power, financial or talent based achievement. In fact, I often must admit that the things He directs me conquer are displeasing, daunting and doubtful in my own analysis, but that is why we are called to walk by faith and not by sight. Equally, I will not apologize for pursuing those things that God bid us confront together for they were never within my own capacity to bring to reality. If He directs it is He who will make them happen.

No, this life is neither easy nor hard for those are personal judgments it is either possible or impossible based upon our talents, treasures, experiences and expectations. The skinny path is narrow by definition because most would never consider choosing its difficulties. We are called to do something greater than that which simply is a feel-good exercise of faith and reason. We are called to overcome, implying directly that the things before us are by nature beyond our capacity to individually deliver. That is why we needed Christ, why we needed salvation, forgiveness, rebirth, seal and power. For it has never been within my power to overcome but through my belief, surrender and reliance upon Him to get to where I never could. His Glory, Honor and Praise and His Will be done in this world, the Heavens in my heart. In Jesus’ name.